Salem

Hello, My name is Sythe and I am new to Salem and the Salem Community.
I've been in search for a game flowing in the direction as Salem, and recently have applied for a beta key.

After completing the sign-up and creating my account, I downloaded the client and attempted to launch the client.
I am arriving at an "Application Error".

Details: The following required field is missing from the launch file: <jnlp>
MissingFieldException[ The following required field is missing from the launch file: <jnlp>]
at com.sun.javaws.jnl.XMLFormat.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.jnl.LaunchDescFactory.buildDescriptor(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.jnl.LaunchDescFactory.buildDescriptor(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.jnl.LaunchDescFactory.buildDescriptor(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.updateFinalLaunchDesc(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.launch(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)


I'm not a programmer, nor do I claim to be superlative with computer languages. I merely know a bit of python and I cannot interpret this error, but I posted the exception above.

EDIT: Running Java 7 UPDATE 5

Hope this helps! Thank you!

wrong forum

My fault. I saw the "Help!" without reading the sub-caption.

If a moderator could move this to the Bugs & Tech. forum I would be grateful.

Thank you.

First of all, welcome to Salem !

Secondly, this is happening while game is downloading/verifying...or do you not even get past the Java splash screen?

Check your java options and make sure you have your temporary internet settings to keep temporary files on your computer.

When I click the JNLP application from the folder that I saved the file into on my desktop, the java loads for a few seconds and then it says, "Unable to launch application".

EDIT: The setting to keep temporary internet files is selected.

Try clearing your java cache, and reinstalling the client.

If I'm reading this right, you're .jnlp isn't being parsed correctly (bad or missing software on your system) or is corrupted (needs to be downloaded again). I would download the .jnlp file again to make sure of this first.

I see that you mentioned Java7u5. Make sure you're up to date on things, the latest update is u9, as there have been more than a few issues with Java 7. This may or may not resolve the problem.

No need to be a programmer. You knew to post the exception output and that's good enough.

Mushibag wrote:Try clearing your java cache, and reinstalling the client.

This isn't the issue as Java is crashing before it even starts downloading anything. Before Java can download, process, and load the Salem client, it has to parse the XML in the .jnlp. If it can't do that, it crashes and spits out the error reported.