i'm trying to do the same... to bad nobody cares to answer. but i suspect j2ee spec to be incomplete, to say the least: -> spec J2EE 1.4, section 9.6 anonymous wrote : How an application client is invoked by an end user is unspecified. Typically a J2EE Product Provider will provide an application launcher that integrates with | the application client machine?s native operating system, but the level of such | integration is unspecified. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3963496#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...