Re: Java plugin phase out timeline

Benjamin Smedberg <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:09:00 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.plugins
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 2/24/2016 12:25 PM, Mikael Haltali wrote:
> Hi,
> the best solution currently is js-ctypes which enables you to build an
> extension that calls a custom dll written in C
To repeat what Chris Peterson wrote, we strongly discourage use of 
JS-ctypes is new code: it is very difficult to write code which is 
memory-safe. We strongly encourage everyone to use a separate process 
and communicate with pipes  using system/child_process or the future 
WebExtensions.

--BDS