For linux/solaris you should install 1.4 plugin to ./dist/bin/components directory instead of ./dist/bin/plugins directory (java plugin became component)
IMHO, regxpcom is not necessary (component was automatically registered when mozilla startup) See bugzilla 109033 -igor Clemens Duepmeier wrote: > > Xiaobin Lu wrote: > > >I think since beta3, Mozilla has to use regxpcom to register the > >NPOJI610.dll file. So the correct way to make Mozilla to work with JRE > >1.4 is to run "regpxom $(The full path to NPOJI610.dll)". You don't > >need to copy any files around and the most important thing is if you > >want to use JRE 1.4 beta3, you need to go to Mozilla plugins directory > >to remove the NPOJI*.dll and NPJava*.dll and NPJPI*.dll. > > > This is very strange. My mozilla 20011116 works, if it doesn't crash > when it loads > the Java Pugin (which happens sometimes), with the Java Plugin Version > 1.4 beta 3. > It works since I copied NPOJI610.dll into the plugins folder! This is on > win98. > Under Solaris or Linux the usual trick to make a symbolic link to the plugin > shared library (libjavaplugin.so) in the plugins folder doesn't work > with the 1.4 beta 3 > version but works with Java Plugin 1.3.1. > > It is reported that the regxpcom method may > work for the 1.4 beta 3 version under the Solaris or Linux platform but > it didn't > worked for me until now. Maybe because I tried to make a symbolic link > in the plugins folder and/or in the components folder first and then > tried to use > regxpcom to register the plugin using the path to the link as argument. > I will try to register the plugin directly by giving > the absolute path to the plugin shared library later this day. > > But why does my win98 version of mozilla work with the Java Plugin 1.4 > beta 3 then? > So, what is the official method to install the Java Plugin 1.4 beta 3 > for testers reading > this Java and OJI related groups on Solaris, Linux and windows platorms? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Clemens Duepmeier, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tel: +49 7247 825721 > Institut fuer Angewandte Informatik, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe > 76021 Eggenstein/Leopoldshafen (Germany)
