Posted by gouessej on Nov 20, 2013; 9:46am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/ZipException-classpath-problem-with-jocl-trying-to-run-HelloJOCL-tp4030658p4030666.html

nyholku wrote

In my experience it is next to impossible to for mortals to get JWS work on latest Mac OS X  with all the Oracle / Apple messing of the Java scene going on :( JWS seems to be, if not dead, then buried alive in Mac.

Java Webstart works under latest Mac OS X with those tricks:
http://hub.jmonkeyengine.org/forum/topic/jogl-support-jogl2-that-is/page/10/#post-166487
http://hub.jmonkeyengine.org/forum/topic/jogl-support-jogl2-that-is/page/11/#post-166499

Edit: I'm sorry to say that but people aren't forced to use Apple products. Java Webstart is easier to use under GNU Linux (OpenJDK + Icedtea-web installed by default most of the time).