[kaffe] Re: NSAPI/ OJI/ Applet plugin

[Philippe Laporte]

Hi,

Michael Koch wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 01:15:03PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote:
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>>Some preliminary questions:
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>>- Why is the security not finished? No one seriously using this plugin 
>>yet? Why not?
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>Because its a hell of lot of work to audit several hundred thousend
>lines of existing code in GNU classpath. RedHat has now some person
>working fulltime on the audit but it still needs much time.
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Do you have a schedule/roadmap/timeline for this to be completed?

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>>- Why non-gnu? Why not migrate to the classpath tree?
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>We are working on this and consider a merge when the security audit is
>done and some bugs are fixed and some really missing features are
>implemented.
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What are these really missing features and how essential are they?

>>- How many browser to Java APIs are there all in all and what's their 
>>stories?
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>ParseException: Can't understand the question.
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>gcjwebplugin supports all browsers using the Gecko engine from Mozilla.
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>Konqueror has its own applet framework which just needs a secure VM.
>Last I tried jamvm worked but I wouldnt use it in a productive
>environment yet as the audit is not done.
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I didn't know OJI was depecrated. Haven't looked at the situation 
extensively yet...

>>There is a good chance I will need a fully functional open-source OJI 
>>plugin sometime soon.
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>As stated before OJI is deprecated and will be removed in the next major
>release of Mozilla. So we will hopefully never need a fully functional
>open-source OJI plugin.
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It's all fine. I would be working in conjunction with the minimo guys 
and they use the latest Gecko/Mozilla.

Thanks a lot,
Philippe