JavaFX beginner issue

[Rhino]

I'm dabbling with JavaFX in NetBeans 8.0 and am trying to run a jar as a
Java Web Start application. When I double-click on the HTML file
created by NetBeans, I get:
======================================================================
Application Blocked by Security Settings

Name: fxswingtest01.FxSwingTest01
Location: file://
Your security settings have blocked a self-signed application from running
=======================================================================

What do I need to do to resolve this situation? I assume I need to give
Java permission to run this application but I'm not sure how or where to
do it and the tutorial I'm using didn't think to include this
information....

 

[Rhino]

You can set the security level to its lowest setting of "medium"
in the Java control panel. Or, also from the control panel,
you can white-list various locations such as "http://localhost/",
"https://localhost/", and "file:///". (You will get warning when
adding http or file protocol URLs, but you can ignore those for
localhost.)

Or you can obtain a signing certificate and sign your code.

Thanks Wayne, I think we're heading in the right direction but I need
some more detail....

I've tried adding all of these entries to the white-list in the Security
tab of the Java Control Panel:

http://localhost/
https://localhost/
http://127.0.0.1/
https:/127.0.0.1/
file:///C:/Users/rhino_000/Documents/NetBeans/HelloWorld/dist/HelloWorld.html
file:///C:/Users/rhino_000/Documents/NetBeans/HelloWorld/dist/HelloWorld.jnlp

I'm running Windows 8.1. When I double-click on the HelloWorld.jar in
File Explorer here on the laptop, the application launches just fine.
When I right-click on the HTML file and open it in Firefox, the Test
Page for HelloWorld shows a "loading" animation that just keeps spinning
and spinning and spinning but never gets done.

When I right-click on the JNLP file in File Explorer, I get the Web
Start "Java ..." splash screen, then I'm back to the error message I
reported in my initial post in this thread.

Hmm. I just added the following to the white-list:

file://

Now, when I right-click on the JNLP file and choose Open With Java Web
Start Launcher, it actually launches without the error message! However,
right-clicking on the HTML file and opening it in Firefox works no
better than it did before.

Just for the heck of it, I uploaded the whole dist folder to a remote
server and tried to access the HTML page: I get the same error as I do
on my local hard drive in File Explorer. When I tried to open the JNLP
file on the remote server, the browser asked me which application I
wanted to use and I chose Java Web Start Launcher and got this:

=====================================================================
Application Error
General Exception
Name: helloworld.HelloWorld
ExitException[3]com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException:
Unable to load resource:
file:/C/Users/RHINO_~1/AppData/Local/Temp/HelloWorld.jar
at sun.plugin2.applet.JNLP2Manager.downloadResources(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin2.applet.JNLP2Manager.prepareLaunchFile(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin2.applet.JNLP2Manager.loadJarFiles(Unknown Source)
at
sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager$AppletExecutionRunnable.run(Unknown
Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
==========================================================================

Why is it looking for a resource on my hard drive when I'm running it on
a remote server? How do I fix this?

 

[Jeff Higgins]

Thanks Wayne, I think we're heading in the right direction but I need
some more detail....

Not a direct answer to your question, but:
<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/>

 

[Rhino]

Those last two URLs are illegal, so I doubt they'd help.


Try it with three slashes. Hierarchical URI protocols always end in "://"
(while non-hierarchical ones end in ":"). So that URI doesn't specify
any particular host/codebase. A third slash conventionally means localhost.

Sorry, I just checked and I mistyped the previous post: the protocol I
added was file:/// (three slashes, not two).

In fact, the white-list won't even ACCEPT file:// as valid; I get a red
exclamation point and if I close it and come back, the file:// entry
wasn't saved.

Web browsers often have difficulty with that. It has something to do with
a confusion by the web browser if the resource is local or remote. Different
internal URIs are used. I just run a local webserver, put my files in that,
and use http://localhost/ to test 'em out. This avoids using file:// protocols.

Fair enough. But doesn't that imply that I need to set up a server on my
computer and then copy the files to that server? Or is there some simple
way to use localhost to point to a specific file or directory on my hard
drive that I've forgotten? I'm not coming up with anything like that in
my Google search for localhost examples....

I should mention that I'm very rusty with some of this stuff.

You can see if that's the problem by (temporarily) setting the security
level to medium, and see if the problem goes away. If so, you just need to
get the URIs in the white list correct.

I turned security down to medium and get all the same symptoms as
previously reported.

Note, Java DOES NOT (yet) support IPv6 for specifying security parameters such
as this white-list. (I've asked.) Since all hosts default to IPv6 first, then
fall back on IPv4, you may see your browser using "localhost", but Java won't
notice that if IPv6 to localhost is tried (by the browser). In that case
the IP address used to launch your Java app is "::1", not "localhost" or
"127.0.0.1", and that will fail. You can try to always use the
"127.0.0.1 value in your URIs, that may also solve your issue.

I'm not clear on how to reference a file on my hard drive via localhost
or 127.0.0.1. It's been a few years since I last messed with localhost
and it's just not coming back to me clearly. Google isn't getting me to
the right place yet either....

Sorry for being so dense!

I really just want to be sure that I can get a trivial program using
JavaFX to work both on my laptop and on a server before I start to put
major time into learning how to write JavaFX code for myself.