I'm not sure that I would dismiss the JDIC project as dead. What features are you trying to use from JDIC? If it has something you need, I would recommend creating your own JNLP files and bypassing whatever mechanism Glassfish is using that prevents doing what you want if the JDIC feature is that important to you. Managing your own JNLP files isn't rocket science. ;-)
Erik
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