When I click on the “Run Beacon here” link on your web site, I get a weird looking text file full of XML, and Beacon never runs. Whats wrong?
If it looks like this, then it means that your browser is not configured correctly to deal with Java Web Start JNLP files, including the beacon.jnlp file. The beacon.jnlp file is what you click on with your browser, and describes how to download and run Beacon over the Internet. The beacon.jnlp file is not meant to be read by a human, but is rather intended first for your browser, and from there, via your browser’s MIME-type for .jnlp files, for the Java Web Start program to parse and act upon. Under Mac OS X, Java Web Start is already installed and should be ready to use. Under Microsoft Windows, installing Java Web Start via installing the Java virtual machine should setup the jnlp mime type for you. Under Linux, you may have to get more involved with your mailcap file or with telling Firefox, or whatever browser you use, how to deal with .jnlp files.
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