jws application can't load swing-layout

Question

I have an old application that use swing-layout and i have to make it usable via java webstart . It runs fine from netbeans but if I launch it using jws I got this error :<

Answer 1

The element <eligible> does not appear in the JNLP File Syntax, and your file is malformed as shown. In your previous question on this topic, you mentioned needing to support Java 6. To support Java 5, specify it in <resources>. The JAR containing org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout appears correct, but the path is suspicious. Try something like this:

<resources>
    <j2se version="1.5+" />
    <jar href="lib/swing-layout-1.0.4.jar"/>
</resources>

Addendum: I don't understand why JWS tries to download the swing-layout.jar from the server.

The JNLP client downloads all JARs from the server via HTTP. Each JAR must be accessible using the relative path specified in the href attribute. In particular, the directory containing your application JAR and JNLP file must also have a lib directory containing the layout JAR.

test/
    application.jnlp
    application.jar
    lib/
        swing-layout-1.0.4.jar