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I tried the webstart plugin in a prrof of concept involving an embedded tomcat server. The plugin is bound to the package phase and takes a longtime to execute, I would recommend to invoke it manually from the command line. It generates a zip file in the target directory containing the jnlp file and all dependencies. This file can then be extraced and put on a webserver. The url in the pom should point to this path on the server. When started, the app runs a tomcat server on localhost port 8080 with a simple servlet that just returns the requested path as a string.
Let me know if this works for you.
Here is the pom of the project, the plugin configuration was mostly copied from the documentation here
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>net.jhorstmann</groupId>
<artifactId>EmbeddedTomcatWebstart</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>EmbeddedTomcatWebstart</name>
<url>http://localhost/jnlp/</url>
<organization>
<name>Organisation</name>
</organization>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<tomcat.version>7.0.6</tomcat.version>
</properties>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>jboss</id>
<url>http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
</repository>
<repository>
<id>sonatype</id>