IcedTea6 Mozilla plugin with OpenJDK6

Achilleas Mantzios achill at matrix.gatewaynet.com
Tue Sep 14 08:07:55 UTC 2010


=CE=A3=CF=84=CE=B9=CF=82 Tuesday 14 September 2010 10:05:22 =CE=BF/=CE=B7 A=
chilleas Mantzios =CE=AD=CE=B3=CF=81=CE=B1=CF=88=CE=B5:
> =CE=A3=CF=84=CE=B9=CF=82 Monday 13 September 2010 20:54:21 =CE=BF/=CE=B7 =
Jung-uk Kim =CE=AD=CE=B3=CF=81=CE=B1=CF=88=CE=B5:
> > On Friday 10 September 2010 07:32 pm, Ivan Voras wrote:
> > > On 11 September 2010 01:00, Jung-uk Kim <jkim at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > > On Friday 10 September 2010 06:13 pm, Ivan Voras wrote:
> > > >> But I cannot start for example this one:
> > > >>
> > > >> http://java.sun.com/applets/jdk/1.4/demo/applets/ArcTest/example
> > > >>1.h tml
> > > >
> > > > Probably you want to test it locally:
> > > >
> > > > file:///usr/local/openjdk6/demo/applets/ArcTest/example1.html
> > >
> > > Yes, the local copy works. So it is just failing to load applets
> > > over the network? Could this be some convoluted Java security
> > > problem?
> >=20
> > I believe it just timed out for your environment.  In fact, there is a=
=20
> > reverse problem, i.e., some applets do not work locally when they=20
> > want to open local files. =20
>=20
> Is that how it is supposed to be? applets work in the sandbox, and by def=
ault
> they are denied access to any local resource.
> I remember i had to sign applets in order for them to be able to browse l=
ocal directories.
> And then the (self produced) certificate should be accepted by the client=
 (browser).
>=20
> > E.g., /usr/local/openjdk6/demo/applets/MoleculeViewer/=20
> > and /usr/local/openjdk6/demo/applets/WireFrame/ fail because they=20
> > cannot open files in subdirectory (models).  If anyone can reproduce=20
> > the same problem under Linux environment, please file an upstream PR=20
> > here:

Just tested the molecule applets under Ubuntu and their Exception trace is =
identical with the one
in FreeBSD. Its not a bug. Unsigned applets are not supposed to access the =
local file systems.

> >=20
> > http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/
> >=20
> > > > BTW, IcedTea plugin is not 100% compatible with Sun/Oracle's.
> > > > =A0Your mileage may vary. ;-)
> > >
> > > But the underlying Java is OpenJDK, right?
> >=20
> > Almost. ;-) There is a big missing piece for applet support in=20
> > OpenJDK, i.e., Web Start.  IcedTea team imported Netx as a=20
> > replacement but it is not quite drop-in replacement, IMHO:
> >=20
> > http://jnlp.sourceforge.net/netx/
> > http://langel.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/icedtea-and-netx/
> >=20
> > Jung-uk Kim
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> >=20
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