Chrome Web Store

General Discussions
#21

Interested to know how you were gonna fill up that Chrome OS app page?

#22

once again Google just re-invents the well using the powerness of their audience… ( they did not show O3D sample ? too bad this is sooo new ans sooo standard éh ? no ? )

someone please make another search engine fast ! Google please stop propaganda !!

wow… I am so negative today ^^ :-X

JWS is not really a technology “Web styled” and then absolutly useless, no more interrest than a standard executable jar file except that it really spam window " install / unsinstall "

#23

umm, DzzD, for starters, they arent just reinventing something with the benifit of their audience. their re-inventing something sot aht it works just to be honest, the java store was crap. and the chrome store will better support java stuff,a nd other platforms as well.

I gotta go right now, but that is the general idea

#24

Looks like the Chrome Web Store is live as a developer preview.

First person to get a Java game up there gets 10 JGO points :slight_smile:

#25

Totally agree!

#26

Also, Google will only take a 5% cut.

#27

Are there any Java apps on there atm?

#28

Someone pointed out that the Chrome Web Store is now open.
Already has some Java games on it e.g. Puzzle Pirates and RuneScape.

#29

and you can add games that use Java Web Start ;D You only have to put the URL of your JNLP file into the manifest file:


"app": {
	"urls": [
	"${codebase-url}"
	],
	"launch": {
		"web_url": "${codebase-url}/${tuer-jnlp-filename}"
	}
},
#30

nice, but better to use something like Getdown, much more reliable (Puzzle Pirates uses it).

#31

Chrome web store shows potential for java indies. The only thing that bugs me, and that’s not minor, is this MS attitude now from Google: you have to use THEIR browser to use the store. Where are you going with Google? To yet another supremacy?

#32

All my build system is based on Java Web Start. In the near future, I plan to build silly RPM and DEB packages that only contains a .desktop file (copied on the desktop with a post-installation script) that contains a command to launch the game with … Java Web Start. Using another installer is not a trivial change.

You’re right, it is a bit stupid but then Google should not have called it Chrome Web Store.

#33

Java Web Start does not work on Chrome Web Store because of this bug:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=10877

:’(

#34

JWS has always been pretty buggy like that, many times the jnlp will just download or even open up as a text file in the browser, especially on linux.

As for Chrome not starting jnlp files but downloading them, its been like that for a long time, it might even be intentional. Also you’ll note that jnlp applets don’t work properly either on Chrome. So your alternatives are to use either a java applet (just the applet tag not jnlp) or something like Getdown if you want to launch desktop applications. Its really not that difficult to switch over from JWS.

#35

[quote=“kapta,post:34,topic:35359”]
It is not a bug of Java Web Start, it is a bug of Chrome. On Linux, when I open a JNLP file with Konqueror, Dolphin, Firefox, etc… it launches Java Web Start except in one case : when Chrome asks Konqueror to open the JNLP file. Therefore it is an intentional bug of Chrome, even this workaround does not work in my case:

I have paid to be allowed to upload my application on Chrome Web Store, Google has to fix this bug as soon as possible, I won’t give up.

Edit.: it should be visible now:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kdbbikdpnpikpmlfaadahcekdnkigona

#36

Unfortunately I think it is difficult to find games that are not “featured”. When you register a game, you can only choose a the category “Games” and suggest additional categories by using tags but submitted games are not correctly sorted in the sub-categories that appear on this web store. For example, TUER could appear in “Arcade & Action”, it doesn’t. Therefore, the most visible games are in the “popular” and in the “featured” sections. It would be really better if we could at least put our games into these sub-categories because the “popular” sections in the “games” section contain all games…

#37

Well if you must run TUER with java web start, one solution I can think of is running a small signed applet which starts the javaws executable with a url to the jnlp file.

#38

Hi!

It is a good idea and I have enough info and permissions when executing a signed Java applet to do this.

I have found another solution: fixing this bug in Chrome/Chromium myself to help the whole Java community and I think it is there:
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/net/base/mime_util.cc?view=markup

Java rocks ;D

#39

Hi!

I have committed my fix for Chrome and Chromium but I have received a strange answer from one of the reviewers:

[quote]I’ll be considering this change from a security perspective. JNLP files can be
dangerous, so any changes here must be done carefully.

The first problem I think you’ll run into is that “JNLP” is on the “dangerous
file type” list.
[/quote]
Don’t worry, I will defend Java. I’m not Santa Claus but this bug fix would be a nice present for the whole community. I won’t give up. Google should not harm us and uses the security as an argument.

#40

Well you can’t blame them, the recent driveby java hack that was publicised on most of the major tech news sites was a jnlp/javascript hack and because they don’t work on Chrome it wasn’t vulnerable.

But yeh overall the java sandbox has been a pretty good.