IcedTea6 Mozilla plugin with OpenJDK6

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Friday 10 September 2010 09:19 am, Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
> i have mixed results on 8.1-RELEASE amd64.
> out the two ancient applets (pre-2005) still in production, i can
> sucessfully run the one of them. I can also run the applet in
> http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml

IcedTea plugin is not 100% compatible with Sun/Oracle's yet.  You may 
find some similar PRs from here:

http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/

> i dont know if it is some kind of hope but the failing applet also
> seems to fail on ubuntu (which in turn runs on top of virtualbox in
> the same FreeBSD box).

If Ubuntu uses IcedTea plugin and the same applet fails there, then we 
should fail, too. ;-)

Thanks for the report!

Jung-uk Kim

> Στις Friday 10 September 2010 14:56:18 ο/η Ivan Voras έγραψε:
> > On 09/10/10 00:04, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> > > On Thursday 09 September 2010 05:42 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> > >> Finally, we have the hybrid and you can see some (updated)
> > >> screenshots from here:
> > >>
> > >> http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/icedtea/screenshots/
> > >>
> > >> The experimental ports tarball is available from here:
> > >>
> > >> http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/icedtea/openjdk6-icedteanp.tar
> > >>.bz2
> > >>
> > >> Note the plugin is turned off by default because it is an
> > >> experimental and unofficial software from
> > >> icedtea.classpath.org. To enable it, run "make config" and
> > >> select "WEB" option.  Re-build, re-install, and enjoy!
> > >
> > > And, don't forget "ln -s
> > > /usr/local/openjdk6/jre/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so
> > > ~/.mozilla/plugins/".  Just making sure. :-)
> >
> > Hmmm, it doesn't work for me.
> >
> > The port builds and installs, and it's even recognized
> > (apparently correctly) in about:plugins, but attempts to view the
> > page at http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml result in
> > the java and the browser hanging, eating CPU cycles as if
> > looping:
> >
> >    PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME  
> > WCPU COMMAND
> > 49282 ivoras       25  76    0  1018M   103M ucond   3   0:02
> > 249.37% java 49275 ivoras       18  61    0   314M   180M piperd 
> > 1   0:26 184.13% firefox-bin
> >
> > This is 8-STABLE, amd64, Firefox 3.6.3
> >
> > about:plugins says:
> >
> > IcedTea NPR Web Browser Plugin (using OpenJDK6 b20)
> >
> >      File: IcedTeaPlugin.so
> >      Version:
> >      The IcedTea NPR Web Browser Plugin (using OpenJDK6 b20)
> > executes Java applets.
> >
> > followed by a table of MIME types for applets handled by Java.
> >
> > Console output of Firefox contains this trace:
> >
> > openjdk version "1.6.0"
> > OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b20)
> > OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 17.0-b16, mixed mode)
> > net.sourceforge.jnlp.LaunchException: Fatal: Initialization
> > Error: Could not initialize applet.
> > 	at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.createApplet(Launcher.java:604)
> > 	at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.getApplet(Launcher.java:548)
> > 	at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher$TgThread.run(Launcher.java:729)
> > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
> > 	at
> > net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.initializeResources(
> >JNLPClassLoader.java:427) at
> > net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.<init>(JNLPClassLoad
> >er.java:168) at
> > net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.getInstance(JNLPClas
> >sLoader.java:249) at
> > net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.createApplet(Launcher.java:575) ...
> > 2 more
> > Caused by:
> > java.lang.NullPointerException
> > 	at
> > net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.initializeResources(
> >JNLPClassLoader.java:427) at
> > net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.<init>(JNLPClassLoad
> >er.java:168) at
> > net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.getInstance(JNLPClas
> >sLoader.java:249) at
> > net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.createApplet(Launcher.java:575) at
> > net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.getApplet(Launcher.java:548) at
> > net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher$TgThread.run(Launcher.java:729)
> > java.lang.NullPointerException
> > 	at net.sourceforge.jnlp.NetxPanel.runLoader(NetxPanel.java:99)
> > 	at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:380)
> > 	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)
> > java.lang.NullPointerException
> > 	at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:430)
> > 	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)
> >
> >
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