How Does Solaris Web Start Work?

Solaris Web Start lets you choose the software you want to install on your machine and creates a profile that reflects your software selections (or the default selections). Solaris Web Start uses the Solaris JumpStart^TM utility to read the profile automatically, thus installing the Solaris software and the other selected software products with minimal intervention.

Solaris Web Start runs in a portable, web browser-based environment. This means you can run Solaris Web Start from a web browser on any desktop platform networked to your server.

If you're setting up a machine that includes a CD-ROM drive, frame buffer, keyboard, and monitor, you can run Solaris Web Start directly from that machine.