Hi,

Considering that the Blackwood project seems abandoned, is there a way to
script Java components with recent versions of Mozilla?

I want to write a Composer plug-in that feeds the page currently being
edited (the HTML and the images) to a Java component. This Java component
converts the page to Plucker format. (Plucker is a format for offline
reading on handheld.)

To make components available to scripts you need to provide an XPCOM
interface. However, the Blackwood project which is supposed to provide the
bridging functionality for Java no longer works with recent versions of
Mozilla.

Is there a way to instantiate an applet inside a plug-in and communicate
with that? What about security? I need to write to the local file system.

I can still use the web services API and communicate via HTTP. However, I
want to exhaust all other possibilities before going that route.


Thanks
-Laurens
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JPluck - open-source Plucker document creation toolkit.



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