In this article, we’ll see how to make an old-but-useful legacy Java application into a brand new Java Web Start (JWS for short) application. JWS is an often overlooked technology that works miracles. With it, you can deploy any Java application, as easily as you would a web one: with the only update server-side and still your application running client-side, with access to all its resources. JWS has two main features: the downloading of the application to the client and the launching of