Make WebStart Java desktop application to start on system startup on Windows and Mac

I developed small cross-platform (Windows and Mac) SWT desktop application. It is distributed with WebStart. So far so good, everything works.

I've got a new requirement to make my app start on system startup (with no user interaction). What is the best way to accomplish that?

In JNLP file I've got this:

<shortcut online="false">
    <desktop/>
    <menu submenu="CompanyName"/>
</shortcut>

On Windows WebStart creates a desktop link [app_name].lnk and it points to javaws.exe and then some Java cache file as a parameter with funny name like ..\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\6.0\4\2c0a6a781-213476. I can possibly programmatically find that link on user's machine by name... erm... and then copy it into user's Startup folder. I can see a problem here though as user can disable WebStart desktop shortcut creation option all together.

On Mac WebStart pops up a dialog to prompt user for the location where to create an [app_name].app (user is allowed to change link name there!) file that launches an application. On Mac I don't event know where the Startup folder is located (and it seems to be much more comp开发者_运维技巧lex there).

Is there Java library out there that abstracts start app on system startup concept on different platforms as SWT does for GUI abstraction?

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There is, but it's very new, so it's not widely available.

The IntegrationService was introduced in 1.6.0u18. The method of interest is requestShortcut.

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You can take a look at Java Service Wrapper. This can wire your program as a windows service.

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Bump!

Seems like http://yajsw.sourceforge.net/ is the currently active project that achieves this.