Re: More fun (not!) with JRE
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 11:22, andy wrote:
> Dear Debianistas
>
> A wee while ago, some of you were kind and patient in helping me out in
> my efforts to access a website that relied on Java (JRE). Despite your
> best efforts, I am still unable to access the site in the way the
> developers (and the course administrators) expect me to. It is supposed
> to be a chat window of some sort, and I tested it from work today, and
> it still doesn't work using an XP machine with IE6. I don't know if I am
> the only one with these issues, and I'd love to point you in the
> direction of the site, but it is password protected and in good
> conscience, I cannot give out the logon details here.
>
> I am beginning to feel compelled to start an argument with the course
> admin about their reliance on this piece of software for their distance
> learning option, and I was wondering if there are any developers/people
> in the know here who have any substantive arguments against the use of
> JRE? On the target web-page, they have a long list of error codes, etc.
> and ways of fixing these (allegedly) which amount to updating to the
> latest JRE, and this suggests that others have also found this to be buggy.
>
> It is bad enough that so many training courses and universities still
> develop these distance learning courses with only Windows (or at most
> with Mac) in mind, but then to get stuck and excluded because of some
> crummy JRE applet not functioning as it should just really pisses me
> off. I'd like to raise this issue to the course admins awareness, and
> would appreciate any input if you feel you have a contribution to make.
> Or, alternatively, is it just me and I'm merely being a trifle grumpy in
> my old(er) age?
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy
>
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I had an issue a while back that I have run into before with javascript
properly executing on my debian stable machine (etch). It was with some
banking software. The source code of the javascript is VERY finicky about
exactly what jre it runs on. The roblem was that I had also installed a bunch
of gcj-XXX apps as well. The author did not say why the software would not
work, but did tell me to get rid of the gcj-xxx stuff. He says this is a
problem exclusive to debian not other distros. I did as asked and the banking
software runs as intended.
As one other reply answered, if this does not run on XP with java installed it
is most likely an error in the javascript not on your machine. Not all java
coders are created experts.:-)
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John W. Foster
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