Liveconnect plugin is NOW the default in IcedTea6

[Deepak Bhole]

* Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> [2008-10-17 04:24]:
> 
> Oh for the love of! ... 4 times I read the email, telling myself "it is
> 4:20 am, there may be mistakes" .. and not once did I check the subject
> line. Bah!
> 
> Now.. I meant now, "Liveconnect plugin is NOW the default in IcedTea6"
> 
> Sorry for this spam message, but it had to be corrected :)
> 
> Deepak
> 
> * Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> [2008-10-17 04:20]:
> > 
> > Hi Everyone,
> > 
> > Yes you read that subject right, the moment is finally here! I have just 
> > completed some final touches to the new plugin, and have made 
> > it the default for IcedTea 6.
> > 
> > Functionality wise, everything should be more or less complete now. In terms of
> > stability, the plugin is fairly stable, but I have seen cases where it takes down
> > the browser, specially on sites with 5-8 applets on the same page.
> > 
> > I wish to dedicate the next week to bug fixing and code cleanup, and to that
> > end, any testing would be greatly appreciated. Instructions on how to
> > build/try it out and specified at the end. So if you have a favourite site
> > that never worked with IcedTea before and you wanted to blame someone till
> > they got it working, this is your chance :)
> > 
> > I'd also like to mention a special thanks to Thomas Fitzsimmons for the
> > initial codebase, and his continued helpful insight on the plugin's 
> > development.
> > 
> > Known issues:
> > 1. Yahoo games does not work. This appears to be a very complex issue, and
> >    the obsfucation of data passed between server/client makes it very hard
> >    to figure out the problem.
> > 

Oooooo it feels so nice to say this: Yahoo! Games should now be working
with the tip :) Panel resizing is still a bit messed up (as usual,
resizing window should take care of it though)

Deepak

> > 2. Initial panel size is incorrect if the dimensions as expressed as a %
> >    (resizing the window fixes it)
> > 
> > 3. Sites known not work at the moment:
> >    http://www.chessgames.com (applet works, but there is a drawing issue)
> >    http://www.goes.noaa.gov/HURRLOOPS/huirloop.html (hangs)
> >    Any WebEx app (this works, but a browser restart is needed for first use)
> > 
> > 4. If you build IcedTea yourself, make sure you have the right cacerts in
> >    jre/lib/security/ otherwise bad things happen (nothing bad security wise..
> >    more like vm crash/exit when trying to load jars from https). The right
> >    cacerts can be found in the jre/lib/security/ directory of any existing
> >    IcedTea releases.
> > 
> > 5. If something kills the jvm, it cannot respawn until the browser is
> >    restarted -- this is a bad one and I intend to fix it asap now that other
> >    priority items are done.
> > 
> > Building + using:
> > To build it just clone the icedtea6 repo and build:
> > 
> > 1. hg clone http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6
> > 2. cd icedtea6
> > 3. aclocal; autoconf; automake --add-missing
> > 4. ./configure <with whatever flags you usually add>
> > 5. make
> > 
> > Once this completes, your JDK/JRE should be in
> > openjdk/control/build/linux-<arch>
> > 
> > Next, create a link (needs to be a link, copying will not work) to
> > [jre/]lib/i386/IcedTeaPlugin.so either in $MOZ_LIB_DIR/mozilla/plugins
> > (MOZ_LIB_DIR=/usr/lib by default on i386) or in ~/.mozilla/plugins/
> > 
> > If there is an existing link to another java plugin in either of those
> > directories, it must be moved out.
> > 
> > Finally, confirm that the new plugin is seen by firefox via about:plugins,
> > and then load up your favourite site!
> > 
> > By default the plugin does not output much, but if you set the
> > ICEDTEAPLUGIN_DEBUG environment variable, it will spew lots (and I mean 
> > LOTS) of debug info. Additionally, it will also redirect stderr/stdout
> > from java side to /tmp/java.std* files.
> > 
> > Well, that is all I can think of for now. Let me know if there are any 
> > problems.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Deepak
> >