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Ant Web Start Task
Ant Web Start Task is an Ant task allowing developers to package a desktop application as a WAR, to be distributed via Web Start. The aim of Ant Web Start Task is to make it quicker and easier for developers to deploy their desktop application using Web Start, and to allow for this to be integrated into the build process.

The task takes care of things such as signing the jars , generating the JNLP descriptor , generating pack200 archives to reduce download size, generating an index.html page to detect whether Java is installed , and packageing the war file.