Hi, Due to a lot of user request I've started working on a port for the OpenJDK6 IcedTea Java plugin which works with Firefox 3.6. As I never used the Java plugin and I'm not very experienced in the Java world I need some help.
Some parts of the port are taken from java/openjdk6 and pkgsrc. The shar file of the current port is available here: http://people.freebsd.org/~beat/patches/icedtea6-plugin.shar I've tested the port on FreeBSD 8.1 amd64 and i386. The plugin was recognized after creating a symlink in ~/.mozilla/plugins/: # ln -s /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/ Screenshot of about:plugins in Firefox 3.6: http://tmp.chruetertee.ch/firefox-icedtea.png When I tried to watch a Java applet the browser crashed: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access class sun.applet.AppletMessageHandler from class sun.applet.PluginAppletViewer at sun.applet.PluginAppletViewer.<clinit>(PluginAppletViewer.java:2163) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:532) at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:372) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:325) at sun.applet.PluginStreamHandler.<init>(PluginStreamHandler.java:85) at sun.applet.PluginMain.connect(PluginMain.java:155) at sun.applet.PluginMain.<init>(PluginMain.java:137) at sun.applet.PluginMain.main(PluginMain.java:116) So I copied the content of www/icedtea6-plugin/work/icedtea6-1.8/liveconnect to /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/ (This step isn't done by the port yet as I don't know if this is the correct location) set the CLASSPATH environment variable but it crashed again: # mv /usr/ports/www/icedtea6-plugin/work/icedtea6-1.8/liveconnect/* /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/ # setenv CLASSPATH /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/ # firefox3 openjdk version "1.6.0" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b20) OpenJDK Client VM (build 17.0-b16, mixed mode) Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access class sun.applet.AppletMessageHandler from class sun.applet.PluginAppletViewer at sun.applet.PluginAppletViewer.<clinit>(PluginAppletViewer.java:2163) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:532) at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:372) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:325) at sun.applet.PluginStreamHandler.<init>(PluginStreamHandler.java:85) at sun.applet.PluginMain.connect(PluginMain.java:155) at sun.applet.PluginMain.<init>(PluginMain.java:137) at sun.applet.PluginMain.main(PluginMain.java:116) Does anyone knows how to fix this problem? There are also some parts (marked with a comment) in the port makefile which needs some review or improvement. Thanks, Beat _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gecko To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
