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No CLASSPATH for you!

The Path of the ClassAs a part of my work, I was asked to create a semi-simulator for JNLP (Web-Start) loader.
The intention was to get the JNLP link, get all the necessary JARS and resources, and send the main class to another process that will run it as a host.
I had no previous in
troduction with JNLP what so ever… Well, first stage: look at the file.
Looking at the file revealed a simple XML file that contained all the necessary data.
So of course, first things first – Get all the JARS. But how?