Re: Liveconnect may be removed

Ah, the eternal question without any answers from anyone...  I'm tempted 
to answer '42'...

 From what I've gathered...

The good news is that NPAPI: 
http://developer.mozilla.org/index.php?title=En/NPAPI (a more generic 
plugin infrastructure, not limited to Java, and apparently 
cross-platform as well) is supposed to work with Java in the future at 
least--doesn't seem to work at all now unless perhaps you use the early 
access update 10 for Java 6 (?)--see below.

The bad news is that there's no clear indication about whether that will 
be ready for Firefox 3.1, etc. (which I understand may have dropped 
LiveConnect already?: 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397080 ). One issue seems 
to be dealing with the Mac. This potential or real discontinuity is 
pretty frustrating.

There are details about the future of LiveConnect (which seems will have 
its name resurrected by Sun) at:
    https://jdk6.dev.java.net/plugin2/ and a demo demonstrating the 
interface: 
https://jdk6.dev.java.net/nonav/plugin2/SimpleLiveConnectTests.html (I 
wonder when people will get the memo that <applet/> is deprecated--they 
say it will work with <object/> though. Here's another example at the 
MDC site (using the non-standard <embed/>): 
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Gecko_Plugin_API_Reference/Scripting_plugins#How_to_call_plugin_native_methods 
).

One person reports that Java 6 update 10 helps with some bugs: 
http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000519.html and the same update 10 
is mentioned at the site explaining the death of LiveConnect: 
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_2/Kill_LiveConnect . Not sure that the 
early access update 10 will be helpful if you want your users to get it 
easily by default, but at least you might be able to experiment with it. 
(Let us all know if you do.)

The bug that tracks the removal of LiveConnect in Mozilla is at 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442399 .

In the meantime, if you do decide to use LiveConnect for Firefox 3.0.*, 
I recommend being aware of these pretty basic bugs
    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391642  (Try-catch)
    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434658 (Arrays -- has 
an easy workaround)
    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417706 (new 
java.lang.String)

Other outstanding bugs (which are just for information rather than 
fixing now, since no core developers seem to even be watching or at 
least responding to the preexisting LiveConnect bugs) can be found at:
     https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=liveconnect

best,
Brett

[email protected] wrote:
> I'd like to send data from JS to Java and back. I have to use a Java
> applet, because JS is too slow for my purposes. So I want to use
> LiveConnect for the communication, but I read at http://developer.mozilla.org/En/LiveConnect
> that
>
> "LiveConnect may be removed from Mozilla 2.0 according to this post by
> Josh."
>
> What should I do now?
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