[plug] Can anyone help ?

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Christian wrote:

> "Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima" wrote:
> > > it isnt the window manager as i am a Java Developer and am running Java
> > > Applications on JDK 1.2.2 on this
> > > system, has anyone had the same problem or can anyone offer any advice,
> > 
> > I hate to say this but I had exactly the same problem on all the machines that
> > had both netscape and JDK on it.  The only way I solved the problme was to
> > seperate the to applications .... since then netscape only crashes on about 1
> > in 20 java active websites.
> 
> Which two applications?  I was under the impression that Netscape uses

JDK and Netscape.  Thought that was obvious.

> it's own JVM -- it certainly doesn't require any other Java packages to
> be installed for Netscape to run with Java.  Also, from what I gather
> from the previous email also was that the person was saying that he knew
> it wasn't the window manager at fault since other Java apps ran ok when
> run from Sun/Blackdown's JVM but applet's crashed under Netscape.

I never blaimed it on the window manager.  Let me try to clarify my Post.

On 4 machines
1 x RedHat 6.1, Netscape 4.7 JDK 1.1.17 (all rpms)
1 x Debian (Slink with a healthy does of potatoe) Netscape 4.61 and JDK
	(I can't remember the version) (netscape is a .deb and JDK was a tarball)
and
2 x RedHat 5.2 Netscape 4.5, JDK 1.1.15 (all rpms)

On each of these machines If I had both JDK and Netscape installed Netscape 
would balk just about every java applet I came across. eventually I turned
java off altogether, things were much more stable.  I played arround with
a couple of configs and the ONLY way I made netscape "stable" was to remove
JDK from the machine I used netscape from.

I don't pretend to understand it BUT the nearest guess I can come up with is
either
a) the JDK's enviroment vars caused netscape to use the wrong lib's/.jar's
b) Netscape detected JDK and used it.

Like I said I don't pretend to understand it.  I was just trying to give some 
feedback on my experience.

> Java under Netscape in Linux has never been particularly stable.  I once

I'd agree with that ... PLUG's had several conversations about netscape and
java.

Yours Tony.