Q: IcedTea-Web Plugin?

[Jiri Vanek]

You need to find OS still supporting NPAPI. Let sey CentOS 6.
Then you have to find a browser still offering NPAPI. I'm afraid even firefox in centos6 already
could kill it. But may work.

I think ICedTEaWeb+cento 6 can really do the job you needs.

If not, you need to add npapi comaptible browser + self built ITW.

On f28, you may give shot to javaws -html your_home_control_hrml_page_where_is_applet  but it have
less then 50/50

Read more in ITW docs.

J.



On 12/10/18 3:01 PM, Andy Boden wrote:
> Hi Jiri,
> 
> Thank you for your kind reply.  While in the mean time I have found a
> mostly-working work-around, long term I am pretty stuck.  The legacy
> device which controls my house automation system:
> 
> https://www.universal-devices.com/residential/isy994i-series/
> 
> has it's administrative console built in a java browser applet, and
> there doesn't seem to be any plan by the device provider to move away
> from that codebase.  I am looking for a drop-in replacement for this
> control unit...
> 
> As I said -- I appreciate your reply.  With every best wish from
> Pasadena,
> 
> - Andy
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2018-12-10 at 10:40 +0100, Jiri Vanek wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>>


-- 
Jiri Vanek
Senior QE engineer, OpenJDK QE lead, Mgr.
Red Hat Czech
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