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From: Robert Swindells <swindellsr@genrad.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Mozilla plug-in?
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>> > I have installed the native jdk-1.2.2b10 port.  Can it be used as a
>> > plug-in for Mozilla?

>> No.  The plugin source is not included in the 1.2.2 source release, so the
>> port cannot build it.

>How complicated is the plug-in?  I had assumed it would just be a
>wrapper around the virtual machine, in which case it shouldn't be hard
>to write a replacement.

The source is part of the JDK1.3.1 source release. The documentation
for it implies that the plugin can be built with any Java 2 VM.

I haven't tried it yet though.

Robert Swindells


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