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  "path": "/t/web-start-a-java-app/49451#post_2",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-03T14:01:35.000Z",
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  "textContent": "I thought “web start” was dead a long time ago. Google says it was officially removed in Java 11. It’s not a great idea in the modern age, I guess.\n\nThere are problems I see with the web start approach in the modern day:\n\n  * it already requires that the user has the right Java installed\n  * it puts up a big “THIS IS A JAVA APPLICATION” flag which will paint a target on you right away\n  * it can be a little clunky to start the app (as you’ve seen) and that clunkiness will be a bit different on every platform. (Maybe it’s gotten better… that was my experience with it 15 years ago.)\n\n\n\nI think most Java games now will distribute with their own JRE built in and try to look as much like a native application as possible. Most of the people who are going to instantly hate a “java application” before even trying it are also not going to be tech savvy enough to know it’s a Java app.",
  "title": "Web Start a Java App"
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