44131 - Need XPInstall of Sun's Java Plugin Installer.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, enhancement, P3)

Description

[edburns]

Rafael Ebron needs this to fix bug 42561.

Comment 1

[edburns]

a

Comment 2

[edburns]

Stanley Ho took ownership.

Comment 3

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

How are we doing on this?

Comment 4

[stanley.ho]

I have created the XPInstall for Java Plug-in. Basically, there are two 
XPInstall:

1) XPInstall for Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) v1.3.
2) XPInstall for J2SE v1.3 patch for Netscape 6 PR2.

User must install #1, followed by #2 in order to install Java properly with 
PR2. The reason why we didn't bundle these two together is because #1 will 
launch the J2SE installer and exits. In this case, if we bundle them together, 
the patch will be applied even before J2SE is installed.

I will hand the XPInstall to Ed by July 21, so he may hand it off to Netscape.

Comment 5

[stanley.ho]

We have handed off the XPI to Netscape, so this issue will be addressed in PR2.

Comment 6

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

Dan, 

Is this good?  What's optimal is that we have one .xpi file not two.  And for 
users also, I don't like them having to download two items of the same 
plug-in especially when it's not necessary.

Comment 7

[shrirang khanzode]

what is a good way to verify this bug? Thx.

Comment 8

[edburns]

Make it so no java is installed on your machine.

Visit http://home.netscape.com/plugins/jvm.html (when it's done, see bug 42561)
and follow the steps.

Visit a page with an applet and verify that the applet runs.

Comment 9

[shrirang khanzode]

With no java installed, clicking on the "Get the Plugin" takes me to the 
http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/ webpage. No installer launches.

Comment 10

[shrirang khanzode]

I ma marking this verified since netscape has the xpi files provided by Sun. 
The functioning of xpinstall to work is another bug (bug 42561). So closing 
this.