[Gcjwebplugin-devel] Re: NSAPI/ OJI/ Applet plugin

[Philippe Laporte]

Hi,

Michael Koch wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 01:15:03PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote:
>  
>
> > Some preliminary questions:
> >
> > - Why is the security not finished? No one seriously using this plugin 
> > yet? Why not?
> >    
>
> 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.
>  

Do you have a schedule/roadmap/timeline for this to be completed?

>  
>
> > - Why non-gnu? Why not migrate to the classpath tree?
> >    
>
> 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.
>  
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?
> >    
>
> ParseException: Can't understand the question.
>
> gcjwebplugin supports all browsers using the Gecko engine from Mozilla.
>
> 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.
>
>  
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.
> >    
>
> 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.
>  

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