landy@despiertapr.com wrote:

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in opera the java info shows but when i try other sites it just say loading applet

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:18:58 -0500 (EST) Landy Roman wrote:

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both opera and konqueror all they give me is loading appalet when testing java

i am going to www.java.sun.com and the applet does not load

i install the plugin from opera site

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For mozilla I could only install this as root. Give that a try. John

Ihave Opera working on java by doing much as described by Fergus. Sometimes an aplet will not display and the java console not that useful as it will only display messages after it has been started and you can not start the console until the aplet is loaded! A real "Catch 22" if I ever met one. Peter On Monday 25 March 2002 10:59 am, you wrote:

I got it going in Konqueror by dowloading the Sun j2re1.4 and following the instructions kindly given by Ben Rosenberg a week or so ago on this list.

I then went into konq. settings, enabled the obvious, and fed it the 'path to java executable', in my case /usr/lib/j2re1.4.0/bin/java. There are probably lots of other ways, but this one certainly led to succesful applet viewing in Konq.

I did this because I saw Ben's notes, and thought 'Why not whizz it up?' - but does anyone have a view about how safe / dangerous it is to cruise around the net with java globally enabled? I never used to, but what's the current orthodoxy on this? HTH Fergus

On Monday 25 March 2002 01:59, you wrote:

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landy@despiertapr.com wrote:

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in opera the java info shows but when i try other sites it just say loading applet

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:18:58 -0500 (EST)

Landy Roman wrote:

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both opera and konqueror all they give me is loading appalet when testing java

i am going to www.java.sun.com and the applet does not load

i install the plugin from opera site

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For mozilla I could only install this as root. Give that a try.

John

On Monday 25 March 2002 05:41 am, Tim Prince wrote:

I installed the IBM jre from SuSE and the current Netscape from the NS site.

Can you tell me what directory the IBM jre is in at ftp.suse.com, if that's where you got it? I can't find it and the Index doesn't seem to have anything in it. Thanks. -- Bryce Hardy (Santa Rosa, CA) brycehdy@sonic.net --->>>"Arbeit Macht Nicht So Frei!"<<<---

On Monday 25 March 2002 04:11 pm, Landy Roman wrote:

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I installed the IBM jre from SuSE and the current Netscape from the NS site.

Can you tell me what directory the IBM jre is in at ftp.suse.com, if that's where you got it? I can't find it and the Index doesn't seem to have anything in it. Thanks.

i got it from here http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/download-linux.html

That's the Sun jre. I have 1.4 installed on my system and some sites don't work, especially java chat sites like Yahoo (even though Yahoo games work fine.) And I've looked all over IBM's web site (the one listed on the Konqueror -Java help page at konqueror.org) and I can't find where to download their jre. -- Bryce Hardy (Santa Rosa, CA) brycehdy@sonic.net --->>>"Arbeit Macht Nicht So Frei!"<<<---

On Tuesday 26 March 2002 05:27 am, Keith Winston wrote:

The IBM JRE is on SuSE 7.3 CDs if you have them (I think on 7.2 as well) in the Commercial software package set. It is called IBMJava2-JRE in YaST but it is version 1.3.0. I'm not sure where it is on the ftp site.

I'm going to be buying 8.0 Professional next month, but I only have the 7.3 Personal right now, and it's not on the Personal Edition. I'm going to take another look at the ftp site and see if I can find it. -- Bryce Hardy (Santa Rosa, CA) brycehdy@sonic.net --->>>"Arbeit Macht Nicht So Frei!"<<<---

On Tuesday 26 March 2002 07:33 am, Bryce Hardy wrote:

On Tuesday 26 March 2002 05:27 am, Keith Winston wrote:

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The IBM JRE is on SuSE 7.3 CDs if you have them (I think on 7.2 as well) in the Commercial software package set. It is called IBMJava2-JRE in YaST but it is version 1.3.0. I'm not sure where it is on the ftp site.

I'm going to be buying 8.0 Professional next month, but I only have the 7.3 Personal right now, and it's not on the Personal Edition. I'm going to take another look at the ftp site and see if I can find it.

I found it's location on ftp.suse.com. You just have to fish around for awhile... ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/7.3/suse/pay6/ -- Bryce Hardy (Santa Rosa, CA) brycehdy@sonic.net --->>>"Arbeit Macht Nicht So Frei!"<<<---

Hi David, comments below:

I've had pretty good success w/ this same setup. My only 2 disappointments are 2 library sites that I'd really like to use Konq for. (They work (adaquately, not spectacularly) w/ galeon, ns, moz but not opera or Konq.).

I assume the problems are w/ the sites, but don't know what to tell the maintainer in order to get them fixed.

Maybe someone else could try these sites and enlighten me as to a way to get them working.

I tried this top one, with the Konqueror Java Console enabled:

http://webpac.spl.org/webclient.html (seattle public library) http://webpac.kcls.org/ (king county library)

Console output was: Java VM version: 1.4.0 Java VM vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc. java.lang.ClassFormatError: WebClient (Local variable name has bad constant pool index) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:509) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123) at org.kde.kjas.server.KJASAppletClassLoader.findClass(KJASAppletClassLoader.java:289) at org.kde.kjas.server.KJASAppletClassLoader.loadClass(KJASAppletClassLoader.java:335) at org.kde.kjas.server.KJASAppletStub$1.run(KJASAppletStub.java:82) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536) It doesn't work in IE 5.5, as far as I can tell, either, or at least what I got was a white box that after about 5 mins came up with 'error connecting to server' You could give them that error output, might help them. I would guess, tho' have no real idea, that the problem is that their system doesn't work with this java version, rather than that you looked on Linux. if you go the head page at www.spl.org, they do offer a telnet version - but the accessibility implications of choosing a web catalogue that requires functioning client-side java are far-reaching. I wouldn't want to criticise that particular vendor or library without knowing a great deal more, but I would certainly never specify a web catalogue that needed client-side java, or indeed anything but a plain browser, for its main functionality. These access issues are important, I don't think a public library should make these demands on its readers, and if I were you I would open a channel with them on why they went in for this arrangement when plenty of vendors offer catalogues that will run happily on non-java enabled browsers. Our web opac works fine with Lynx, for example. I would make this the issue, rather than Linux, which may matter less in this context. Good luck, Fergus

Also on the browsers that do work, I find that the fonts don't seem to be properly sized, ie I can't see what I type into the search box,

ie. KCLS catalog -> New Search

and the site itself (frame?)seems to be cut off at both sides (I'm sorry I can't describe it any better, thats why I've never gotten around to asking this question before.)

Thanks for any suggestions