Yves Forkl wrote: > Fellow Linux users affected by the same problem, I have good news for > you: I have managed to get the cute new XXE applet demos to run (at > least they do now for me). > > The critical issue seems to be that you must be using the "next > generation Java[TM] plug-in" and not the usual Java plug-in. It is true > that this requirement is mentioned at > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/xxe_applet.html, but it is not so easy > to find out how to *select* the New plug-in, as just *installing* a > recent JRE is not sufficient. Windows seems to offer a selection through > the Java Console and even makes the New plug-in the default. > > Some Linux flavours, reportedly Gentoo, might allow the user to choose > among the Java plug-in versions that the installed JRE offers. Ubuntu > 8.04, however, required me to take a few manual steps (following the > hints at https://jdk6.dev.java.net/plugin2/#INSTALLATION ): > > 1 - Quit Firefox. > > 2 - Install a very recent JRE (1.6.0_10 or above) into /opt/java, aside > the Ubuntu 8.04 package system (which unfortunately does not provide any > JRE newer than 1.6.0_07). > > 3 - Remove any older Java plugins (or symlinks to them) from the Firefox > plugins directory (e.g. /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.11/plugins), then create a > symlink from the New plug-in, a.k.a. next generation plug-in, into the > Firefox plugins directory. > > Note: At least with JRE 1.6.0_14, the next generation Java plug-in is > *not* located in the "plugin" subdirectory of the JRE installation > directory, but inside the "lib" subdirectory, and is called "libnpjp2.so". > > So for me, selecting the new Java plug-in instead of the conventional > one came up to do: > > cd /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.11/plugins > sudo rm libjavaplugin_oji.so > sudo ln -s /opt/java/jre1.6.0_14/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so . > > 4 - Restart Firefox. It will automatically use the Java plug-in from its > "plugins" directory. > > 5 - Open http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_applet/viewer.html , sit back > and watch the beautiful XXE viewer applet running. :-) >
Thank you very much for the above information! > Hussein, would it be possible to enrich > the requirements section of > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/xxe_applet.html with a reference to > https://jdk6.dev.java.net/plugin2/#INSTALLATION where the essential > instructions for installing and selecting the New Java plug-in can be > found? > Sure. We'll of course complement the requirements section of the http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/xxe_applet.html page.
