Q: IcedTea-Web Plugin?

[Jiri Vanek]

Hi.

Plugin shared object is now removed.
NPAPI support was removed from all serious distributions.
Our upstream still have it, and will have it also for 1.8 release, but you can not even build it on f28.

Give up on java applets., they are dead.

ITW can still somehow use plugin.jar by javaws -html, but it is known to mostly not work.

So you are not missing anything.

Please CC distro-pkg-dev at openjdk.java.net if you ahve any further inquiries.

HTH
  J.


On 12/7/18 4:43 PM, Andy Boden wrote:
> Hi Mr. (Ms?) Vanek,
> 
> Please forgive the "cold-call", but I saw your name seemingly listed as
> a maintainer of the IcedTea-Web package -- I hope you can help me with
> what might be a stupid question on that same package...
> 
> 
> [To support a legacy system] I am trying to use IcedTea-Web to provide
> java browser plugin functionality (on an old version of Firefox)
> running on a Fedora28 system.
> 
> I have the IcedTea-Web package installed:
> 
>> [bode at hydra ~]$ rpm -q --all | grep iced
>> icedtea-web-1.7.1-10.fc28.noarch
> 
> The IcedTea documentation gives instructions for linking in the plugin
> (a file designated IcedTeaPlugin.so) into the broswer:
> 
> https://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#Plugin
> 
> However no such file is among the files provided by the icedtea rpm:
> 
> https://fedora.pkgs.org/28/fedora-i386/icedtea-web-1.7.1-10.fc28.noarch.rpm.html
> 
> There must be something simple that I am missing.  Is there some post-
> installation build step that I need to do to build the shared object
> file???  Something else?
> 
> Help (or a pointer to same) would be most appreciated.  Thanks in
> advance.  With every best wish from Pasadena CA...
> 
> - Andy
> 
> 


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Jiri Vanek
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Red Hat Czech
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