I am trying to get a custom destop icon to be displayed for my app but for some reason no matter what I do the same default java icon shows up. I have tried everything I can
We had the same problem. It worked fine initially then over time (a few Java updates?) it stopped working. When I got around to troubleshooting I discovered that even though javaws sends that it is gzip capable, our gzip response was not handled. I turned gzip off for these icons and it worked fine once again.