Many of you might use Oracle’s JNLP Download Servlet, delivered with JDK in jnlp-servlet.jar. One of the nice features of this servlet is the automatic replacement of variables at runtime, e.g. codebase and context. However, the existing documentation does not reveal all of these replacements. While searching for a solution where I need to put the server name into the JNLP file, I also examined the source code of JnlpDownloadServlet. And voilá: the feature is already there but not documented.
Here is the complete list of replacements that the servlet does for you while delivering a JNLP:
$$name: will be replaced by the name of the URL file requested (without path, e.g. myfile.jnlp)$$hostname: will be replaced by the servername as given in the HTTP(S) request$$codebase: will be replaced by the codebase (request without URL file: http://my.server/appname/somedir/)$$site: will be replaced by the protocol, server and port, e.g. http://my.server:8080
I hope you’ll find that useful next time you look for a solution to deliver WAR files to individual servers with the specific servername in its JNLP file.