Subject: Java browser plug-in
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires <p@ppires.org>
List: current-users
Date: 02/22/2002 01:02:22
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Hello, folks.

For about six months, I have been trying to get Netscape 6's JRE plug-in
to work under NetBSD, in both Netscape 6 and Mozilla, but the Java VM
would either hang (way back in the past) ou spawn many child processes
and then hang, taking the browser with it.  Is this any known bug, or am
I making something wrong?  Can anyone make it work?

It would be nice if a native Mozilla could run the Linux plug-in (for
Java and for anything else), but I think this is not possible due to
different shared library formats.  Is this true?  Would it be possible
to write "wrappers" plug-ins in NetBSD that would them call the code in
library built for Linux?

How close is NetBSD to getting more native Java tools (SDK, VM, RE
etc.), so that interoperating Java and NetBSD would be easier?

--
        Pappires

... Qui habet aurem audiat quid Spiritus dicat ecclesiis.



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Hello, folks.
<p>For about six months, I&nbsp;have been trying to get Netscape 6's JRE&nbsp;plug-in
to work under NetBSD, in both Netscape 6 and Mozilla, but the Java VM would
either hang (way back in the past) ou spawn many child processes and then
hang, taking the browser with it.&nbsp; Is this any known bug, or am I
making something wrong?&nbsp; Can anyone make it work?
<p>It would be nice if a native Mozilla could run the Linux plug-in (for
Java and for anything else), but I&nbsp;think this is not possible due
to different shared library formats.&nbsp; Is this true?&nbsp; Would it
be possible to write "wrappers" plug-ins in NetBSD that would them call
the code in library built for Linux?
<p>How close is NetBSD to getting more native Java tools (SDK, VM, RE etc.),
so that interoperating Java and NetBSD&nbsp;would be easier?
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pappires

... Qui habet aurem audiat quid Spiritus dicat ecclesiis.</pre>
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