Igor S. Nekrestyanov wrote: >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 > On Solaris this doesn't works for me! Just tried it. Created a link libjavaplugin_oji140.so -> /home/duepmeie/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/plugin/sparc/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji140.so
If I start the browser now and go to http://java.sun.com, the browser asks me to download the plugin! > >-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) >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Clemens Duepmeier, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tel: +49 7247 825721 Institut fuer Angewandte Informatik, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe 76021 Eggenstein/Leopoldshafen (Germany)
