title: Create desktop shortcut with Java Webstart
body: <p>I have a Java application (a JAR file) which runs using Java Web Start. All is weel in terms of the application actually running.</p>
  
  <p>What does not work is the shortcut being installed by JWS. Here is my JNLP file <code>&lt;information&gt;</code> tag</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;information&gt;
      &lt;title&gt;My App&lt;/title&gt;
      &lt;vendor&gt;My Company&lt;/vendor&gt;
      &lt;homepage href="http://example.com"/&gt;
      &lt;description&gt;My Description&lt;/description&gt;
      &lt;description kind="short"&gt;desc short&lt;/description&gt;
      &lt;icon href="splash.png" kind="splash"/&gt;
      &lt;icon kind="shortcut" href="icon.png" /&gt;
      &lt;shortcut online="false" install="true"&gt;  
          &lt;desktop/&gt;  
          &lt;menu submenu="My APP"/&gt;  
      &lt;/shortcut&gt; 
  &lt;/information&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now I know one major problem is that Shortcut install is blocked by our IT policy.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rkv2G.png" alt="Install Blocked"></p>
  
  <p>The shortcuts do install if i do it directly from the Java Cache Viewer</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/aP2SF.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>I tried doing it from the JAVAWS tool but that did not work either.</p>
  
  <pre><code>javaws -verbose -import -silent -shortcut my-file.jnlp
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What can i do so that i can automatically install shortcuts when my application is deployed?</p>