a better way still

Turns out there is actually an even better way: the new Deployment Toolkit in Java 6.

It includes a Javascript file hosted by Sun that you can include in your web apps. It includes Javascript functions to install the latest JRE, deploy a JNLP file, deploy an applet, etc.

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