Hi. Is there a way to check for for OpenGL extensions in the JNLP? My system, a vaio tr notebook w/O a fragment program, isn’t capable of running the procedural texture physics demo. We hate to spend the bandwidth to download a demo and find out we can’t run it with out a certain extension.
No.
On the positive side, you can download a smaller test program before downloading your entire demo. You can even use the JNLP APIs to download more material after your initial program has been downloaded.
Also, the jogl.jar file should be considerably smaller in the next (JSR-231) release, although I don’t have a concrete figure yet for exactly how much smaller it will be.