Q: IcedTea-Web Plugin?

[Jiri Vanek]

On 12/10/18 3:42 PM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
> 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/

btw - this page clearly says: Browser-based Java Applet or Java Web Start Application

So yo are ok to go with pure javaws.
>>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
> 
> 


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Jiri Vanek
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Red Hat Czech
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