[ydl-gen] Java on PS3-YDL 6.2

[Stephen Harker]

On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 02:33:04PM -0500, Derick Centeno wrote:
> So if you are building any applications from source you need to make
> sure that you also build from source all related rpms, but before all
> that you also need to remove from YDL the rpms of dependencies and
> applications which are already installed which you intend to replace.
> I've gotten caught by this requirement myself several times. This whole
> process is rather tedious but if you get through it all, you will have
> eventually what you want as you want it.

There was no problem in building Firebox 3.6b3 or 3.6b5.  They run
well, it is merely that the IBM Java plugin does not work.  From what
I understand (see < http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1366480>)
Firefox 3.6 needs a different plugin and it is only available for Sun
Java at the moment. 

Looking through the article I see they refer to an article with more
detail: <http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1576825>
which says:

>-------------------------------------------------
You need to use the new Java plugin.

<java install>/lib/<platform>/libnpjp2.so
>-------------------------------------------------

I find there is a /opt/ibm/java-ppc-60/jre/lib/ppc/libnpjp2.so
So I will have to try this and see if it works with the IBM Java.

Having 

cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins then 
ln -s /opt/ibm/java-ppc-60/jre/lib/ppc/libnpjp2.so

then restarted Firefox 3.6b5 I now find

Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0

    File: libnpjp2.so
    Version: 
    The next generation Java plug-in for Mozilla browsers.

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
application/x-java-vm 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-applet 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in Applet 		Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.1 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.2 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.3 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.1 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.2 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.3 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.3.1 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.1 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.2 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.5 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.6 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-applet;jpi-version=1.6 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-bean 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in JavaBeans 		Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.1 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.2 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.3 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.1 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.2 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.3 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.3.1 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4.1 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4.2 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.5 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.6 	Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes
application/x-java-bean;jpi-version=1.6 Java$(C"b(B Plug-in 		Yes

So, this has been a useful thread for me (and hopefully others).  I
don't know if anyone else is using a self-compiled Firefox 3.6 beta,
but it will be useful for them or for when Firefox 3.6 is released.
It is possible to get the latest IBM Java to work as a plugin under
these releases.

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Stephen Harker                           s.harker at adfa.edu.au
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