Hello all. We have a software product that requires the installation of client-side Java classes. We used to do this with SmartUpdate, and I'm trying to come up with an acceptible xpinstall equivalent. From my own experiments, and from reading this list, it seems there are two possible strategies:
1) locate the copy of the JRE that Netscape 6 is using, and place the class files in the lib/applet directory 2) install the classes somewhere appropriate in the Netscape 6 tree, and modify the CLASSPATH However, neither of these is very satisfactory. In case 1, there seems to be no dependable cross-platform method of finding the proper JRE, and in case 2, there is no dependable, side-effect free way of modifying the CLASSPATH. Thus, we appear to be facing writing a fair amount of platform-dependent executable code that probably won't work very well anyway. Is this really the case? Does anyone have a better solution? Obviously Netscape/Mozilla keeps track of the location of the JRE it is going to use for running Java applets. Isn't this exposed somewhere? --Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------ Robert Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED] MathML 2.0 Specification Co-editor 651-223-2883 Design Science, Inc. "How Science Communicates" www.dessci.com ------------------------------------------------------------------
