Re: Problems Registering a XPCOM component in XULrunner environment Re: Question: How to reliably create a XPCOM component for use with javaxpcom?

Martini wrote:
> I just realized there's a more succinct way to describe my problem:
> I have created a XPCOM standalone component that provides some service
> that I want to access in my self contained XUL dev environment.
> How do I register it so that it is available for use just like the
> components in xulrunner/components

What environment is this? A XULRunner app, or embedded? If it's a XR app, 
all you need to do is put the component in <app>/components and force 
reregistration of components. That's best done by changing the buildid in 
application.ini

In embedded contexts, you will need to specify a directory to look for 
components during XPCOM initialization. You may also need to force component 
registration programmatically (nsIComponentRegistrar.autoRegister(null)).

> The obvious way of registering with regxpcom is not resulting in the
> updated components/*.dat files.

No toolkit-based apps should ever use regxpcom. It is a holdover from the 
days when we kept compreg.dat in the application directory and is totally 
unreliable.

--BDS