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kamilfb / mqtt-spy

Please use the new Eclipse Paho GitHub repo instead.
https://github.com/eclipse/paho.mqtt-spy/wiki
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Start mqtt-spy via URL from iot.eclipse.org #62

Open kamilfb opened 8 years ago

kamilfb commented 8 years ago

A placeholder for discussion around running mqtt-spy directly from iot.eclipse.org and/or eclipse.org/paho

The proposal is to utilise Java's WebStart technology. This means the app can be started via a web page. It does require Java8 to be installed on the client PC.

Current TODOs:

  1. Create JNLP file and self-signed mqtt-spy jar, run it from a sample server
  2. Get eclipse.org Java code signing certificate to sign the mqtt-spy.jar
  3. Deploy the JNLP and signed mqtt-spy.jar at iot.eclipse.org or paho
  4. Discuss how we release updates

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kartben commented 8 years ago

Thanks for initiating the discussion!

kamilfb commented 8 years ago

I think I'm done with 1) - see the mqtt-spy sample web start page: http://baczkowicz.pl/mqtt-spy/webstart

Created a sample HTML page, with linked JNLP file that loads a self-signed mqtt-spy JAR file. To do it properly, someone from Eclipse would need to sign the mqtt-spy JAR with the Eclipse's certificate, so people don't get security warnings.

What are your thoughts?