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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: State of Java support in Konqueror
From:       Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz () linuxqa ! com>
Date:       2001-01-17 9:46:31
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Just out of curiosity - 2 questions:

1. which JRE have you tried with it? 
2. Now, with this support - can web sites like http://games.yahoo.com - work?

Thanks
Hetz

Wynn Wilkes wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Going into beta 2, I wanted to summarize what's been fixed/added to the java
> support in konqueror, and ask for some help in testing different parts of it.
> 
> First of all, my employer, Caldera Systems, has allowed me to work on this
> full-time for the last few weeks.  This has allowed me to get a lot done.  I
> have to move on to some new projects, but I will continue to maintain the
> KJAS package in my free time.  There's not really much left to do besides
> bug-fixing whatever comes up.
> 
> As far as changes in the applet support:
> _all_ applets should work, as long as the appletviewer from the jdk can run
> them.  The  only exception to this should be applets where the class files
> have been run through some kind of code obfuscator that make the 1.2 and 1.3
> jre's see the class files as invalid.  There's nothing I can do about cases
> like those..
> 
> The security manager is in place and works.  It can be disabled, but that's
> not really recommended.
> 
> The kcontrol module has some new added functions.
> 
> Applet loading via proxies and over https should work now.  Https support is
> achieved by using the JSSE (Java Secure Sockets Extension) classes.  They can
> be obtained from http://java.sun.com/products/jsse/.
> 
> There are three jar files, jcert.jar, jnet.jar, and jsse.jar that make up the
> JSSE extension.  These just need  to be copied to the
> $KDEDIRS/share/apps/kjava/ directory, and the KJAS classes will automatically
> make use of them.  That should make it easy for people to get that support.
> It will also work if the platform's jvm has already been configured to use
> those.  These files should be freely available, but I don't think we can put
> them into cvs.  Distributors should be able to ship them as long as they can
> ship a jre.
> 
> This should make all you Germans who bank online happy:)
> 
> As far as testing help goes, I need some help in testing the support for
> proxies and this https stuff.  If you are in that situation and can send me
> an email letting me know how things work, I'd really appreciate it.
> 
> When testing, please set the "Additional Arguments" field to:
> -Dkjas.debug -Dkjas.log
> 
> This will print out a lot of debug output, and put a log file at
> /tmp/kjas.log.  If you could supply that file along with some of the output
> from konqueror, that would help a lot.
> 
> Hopefully it will just work for you though, hopefully.
> 
> Thanks,
> Wynn
> --
> Wynn Wilkes
> Caldera Systems, Inc.
> 
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Hetz Ben Hamo
Hardware Research dept.
Aduva Inc.
 
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