icedtea-web(1)

💅 icedtea-web(1) — the glow-up

okay so bestie, buckle in, because this is icedtea-web, and she's a whole icon 💖. She gives you a Free Software web browser plugin running applets written in the Java programming language, plus an implementation of Java Web Start — and she's originally based on the NetX project. main character energy fr fr ✨

NetX lets Java applets and applications be downloaded over the network, cached, and (by default) run in a secure sandbox environment. And the way it just works? Subsequent runs of the applet download the latest version automatically 😭👑. Update and security settings, among others, can be set using the itw-settings command. icedtea-web also includes a plugin to enable Java applets (http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp) within web browsers. iykyk 🦋

Names and email addresses of contributors to this project can be found in the file AUTHORS in the IcedTea-Web root directory 🫶

The full GPLv2 license of this project can be found in the file COPYING in the IcedTea-Web root directory 📜

News about releases of this project can be found in the file NEWS in the IcedTea-Web root directory 📰

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

NetX features, and honestly? she ate:

• Modular — Easily add JNLP capabilities to an application.
• Saves Memory — Launch programs in a shared JVM.
• Fast startup — Runs applications from a cache for fast starting.
• Security — Run any application in a sandbox or log its activities.
• Auto-Update — Applications can auto-update without special code.
• Network Deployment — Deploy to the internet, not with installers.
• Open Source — GNU Lesser General Public License.

Visit the IcedTea project wiki (http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/Main_Page) or specifically the IcedTea-Web home (http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web) pages for more information. 🌈 Help with common issues with IcedTea-Web can be found here (http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#Common_Issues) .

🎀 Contributing 🎀

A QuickStart (http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/DeveloperQuickStart) guide for the IcedTea project is available on the wiki ✨

Code style (http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#Code_style) guidelines and Eclipse setup (http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web/DevelopingWithEclipse) instructions for IcedTea-Web are available as well. Patches are supposed to be accompanied by unit tests and reproducers (http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/Reproducers) before being sent to the mailing list (http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/distro-pkg-dev) 💌 — like yes, do the homework before you slide into their inbox, periodt.

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💀 BUGS 💀

There aren't any known bugs 👑 (iconic behaviour, honestly). If you come across one, please file it at: http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#Filing_bugs http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla

bestie listen to me: please run in debug (-verbose switch or itw-settings setting or ICEDTEAPLUGIN_DEBUG variable set to true) mode and include that output (best is from java console) with URL to jnlp or html file (or the jnlp/html file or application itself) when filing out the bug report. That's the whole vibe check — no debug output, no repro, no slay 🔥

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

The following people have made contributions to this project. Please keep this list in alphabetical order (respect the alphabet, she's doing her best 💅):

• Lillian Angel <langel@redhat.com>
• Andrew Azores <aazores@redhat.com>
• Deepak Bhole <dbhole@redhat.com>
• Laurent Bourgès <bourges.laurent@gmail.com>
• Adam Buchta <adbuch7@gmail.com>
• Ricardo Martín Camarero <rickyepoderi@yahoo.es>
• Marcin Cieslak <marcin.cieslak@gmail.com>
• Danesh Dadachanji <ddadacha@redhat.com>
• Adam Domurad <adomurad@redhat.com>
• Lukasz Dracz <ldracz@redhat.com>
• Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@redhat.com>
• Olesya Gerasimenko <gammaray@basealt.ru>
• Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
• Mark Greenwood <mark@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
• Tereza Hlavackova <hlavackova.tereza@gmail.com>
• Lars Herschke <lhersch@dssgmbh.de>
• Peter Hatina <phatina@redhat.com>
• Andrew John Hughes <ahughes@redhat.com>
• Jie Kang <jkang@redhat.com>
• Alex Kashchenko <akashche@redhat.com>
• Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com>
• Alexandr Kolouch <skolnag@gmail.com>
• Jan Kmetko <jan.kmetko.ml@gmail.com>
• Francis Kung <fkung@redhat.com>
• Denis Lila <dlila@redhat.com>
• DJ Lucas <dj@lucasit.com>
• Omair Majid <omajid@redhat.com>
• Jon A. Maxwell <jmaxwell@users.sourceforge.net>
• Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
• Kurt Miller <kurt@intricatesoftware.com>
• Saad Mohammad <smohammad@redhat.com>
• Martin Olsson <martin@minimum.se>
• Stefan Ring <stefan@complang.tuwien.ac.at>
• Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
• Fridrich Strba <fridrich.strba@suse.com>
• Andrew Su <asu@redhat.com>
• Joshua Sumali <jsumali@redhat.com>
• Joel Tesdall <jtesdall@mapcon.com>
• Michal Vala <mvala@redhat.com>
• Jiri Vanek <jvanek@redhat.com>
• Tomáš Votava <tomcacolca@gmail.com>
• Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
• Jacob Wisor <gitne@excite.co.jp>
• Man Lung Wong <mwong@redhat.com>

This project also includes code from the following projects 🧚:

• OpenJDK <http://openjdk.java.net/>
• Netx <http://jnlp.sourceforge.net/netx/>

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

icedtea-web(1) javaws(1) icedtea-web-plugin(1) itweb-settings(1) policyeditor(1) policytool(1) java(1)

http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea-web

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okay that's the whole page bestie, go forth and applet 💜 — this one's icedtea-web from the fedora-8.el9-x86_64 build, dated 2 May 2025, and yes she's still icedtea-web(1) at heart 🎀⭐