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Verifying Java Web Start

A Java installation should include Web Start by default and so does not need to be installed separately. The very first download of the Web Start version must take place through a browser and, although this will usually be correctly configured to launch Web Start when the OT is selected in the ALMA Science Portal, this may not always be the case. Linux users will often find that IcedTea is the default version of Java and this ideally should be changed. On Firefox, this is done via the Applications tab of the Preferences menu (Figure 2.1).

Figure 2.1: An example of the Applications menu in Firefox that can be used to change the version of Web Start used by the browser. This is for a Linux version of Firefox.
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The ALMA OT Team, 2018 Sep 25