Q: IcedTea-Web Plugin?

[Andy Boden]

The workaround I found is jnlp-based (separately suggested from the
mailing list by Treutwein Bernhard -- thanks to him as well) works well
enough to get me what I absolutely need in the short term.  But I think
the right long-term solution is either for my controller provider to
provide a working admin application going forward, or for me to find an
alternative controller provider going forward...  Because as you say
java applets are dead.

Best wishes to all for the holidays and in the new year.

- Andy





On Mon, 2018-12-10 at 15:42 +0100, 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/
> > 
> > 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
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> 
> 
-- 
Andy Boden <aboden460 at gmail.com>
Caltech Astronomy