15071 - Java applet not loading on Linux/Mac OS

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect, P4)

Description

[Ludovic Hirlimann]

Using mozilla Build ID 1999092708 on a Debian "Potato".
If you go on the above URL with Netscape 461, on the right side of the main page
You'll see some "buttons", they are not displyed under Mozilla.

Comment 1

[Eli Goldberg]

QA Assigning to self.

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

I'm assuming that the reporter refers to the buttons "Infos" "Photos" etc.
Those are APPLETs and work fine in apprunner 1999-09-25-09-M11 on Windows NT.
Maybe APPLETs doesn't work on Linux yet ?

Comment 3

[Eli Goldberg]

I believe that the problem is as mats says --- there's no Java on Mac or Linux,
therefore, these Java-based buttons don't work on those platforms. (When I
disable Java within 4.5, the page behaves similarly to within Apprunner.)

QA Assigning to desale, who is the Java QA expert. Prashant, what should happen
to this bug? [I can't find a general "Java doesn't work on Linux & Mac OS" to
mark it a duplicate of.]

Thanks!

Comment 4

[drapeau]

I believe I can offer some assistance.  There currently is a working VM for the
Macintosh; Patrick Beard implemented a working MRJ Plugin and Mark Lin has done
some work to assure that it works with current Mozilla builds.

On the other hand, there is no current Linux JDK Plugin, so there is no way to
test the Linux OJI support.  We believe that the Linux support works, since the
Solaris OJI support is now working, but we won't be able to confirm until
somebody implements a Linux JDK Plugin.  We don't expect that to happen for a
few months (nobody currently owns that problem, as JDK plugins are not a
Mozilla/Netscape/OJI problem, but rather seen as a third-party problem).

I will mark this bug as due in M14 (i.e., after Beta) and will lower the
priority on it.  When Linux support for OJI is ready and tested, this bug will
be re-visited.

Comment 5

[Eli Goldberg]

Thanks, [e-mail]!

Comment 6

[drapeau]

*** Bug 21148 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[drapeau]

I'm moving the milestone on this out because we still don't have access to a
Linux OJI-compliant JVM.  I've spoken with the JDK team at Sun about their
ETA; still haven't heard a response.

Comment 8

[leger]

Updating QA Contact.

Comment 9

[moshev]

There is an OJI plugin in the new JDK 1.3 from IBM
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/linuxjdk

I have tried using it, but it seems that OJI is not enabled in 
latest Linux nightly builds.

see my posts from today to netscape.public.mozilla.oji

Can anyone confirm whether OJI is enabled in nightly builds for Linux?

Comment 10

[Paul Wyskoczka]

As far as I know, there is no oji plugin for Linux.  Hopefully soon.

Comment 11

[moshev]

Paw, you are wrong, there IS NOW an OJI plugin from IBM.
read my posts at n.p.m.oji

Comment 12

[rusty.lynch]

adding myself to cc while I download the new sdk.  I could really go for Java
support on Linux/Mozilla!

Comment 13

[moshev]

If this bug has become for linux, then it's a duplicate of #28461
Also, see comments on #28461 about latest 1.3 release, it will
save you 30mb of download

Comment 14

[Ludovic Hirlimann]

*** Bug 28461 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[moshev]

No no no, Bug #28461 is the bug with all the info in it, 
It should be the other way around IMHO.

Comment 16

[Mike]

M16 has been out for a while now, these bugs target milestones need to be 
updated.

Comment 17

[caught]

hi, if anyone has voted for this bug for linux java support, please jump to
bug #49451 ( http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49451 ) and make your
vote there.

Comment 18

[edburns]

This page has no applets.  Marking invalid.

Comment 19

[Paul Wyskoczka]

Verified in build 2000102612 on Linux.  There are no applets