Currently the we only have JRE 1.3.0_02, 1.4.0, 1.4.1 for auto-download via Java Web Start.

Customers are requesting badly for the avaliabilty of auto-download for other update releases, as update releases contain important bug fixes for them.

See the attached email from NTT data:

From: Hiroshi TOKUDA <###@###.###>
To: ###@###.###
Subject: Java Web Start Feedback - <###@###.###>
Name: Hiroshi TOKUDA

E-mail Address: ###@###.###
General: Dear Java Web Start Team

Now we are developing a G2C application for a
certain Ministry of Japan. We adopt Java
Application (with Java Web Start) as the platform
for our application.

We plan to use an excellent function of the Java
Web Start which enables us to designate a specific
JDK version for our application in a JNLP
configuration file. It emancipates us developers
from problems caused by the variety of JDK
versions installed on the client machines.

We would like to take advantage of the function
that automatically installs corresponding version
of JDK on Windows clients if they don't have the
version of JDK.

For several reasons such as surrounding systems
and existing libraries, we have no choice but to
select JDK 1.3 series as the version written
above.

We tried using automatic download function and
found that JRE 1.3 was successfully downloaded.
We, however, found a problem on JRE minor version
here.

Though we expect Java Web Start to install JRE
1.3.1_07, JRE 1.3.1_02 is downloaded from Sun site
now.

Because our application will diffuse JDK to many
and unspecified clients, and older releases of JRE
1.3.1 have significant security halls that will
cause serious problems in the future, we hope that
latest minor version of JRE 1.3 will be
downloaded.

Security savant Dr. Hiromitsu Takagi who has ever
officially denounced several governmental systems
for security halls also pay attention to Java Web
Start. We appreciate if you could kindly accept
our request to update the JRE versions to provide
more quality and convenience.

Sincerely
Platform: Win2000 WinXP-Professional-Edition
Browser: IE6
JRE version: JRE1.3.1_07
JRE1.4.1_01
JNLP location: none
Error messages: none
Instructions to reproduce the problem: Normal x86 arch machine