Re: [kaffe] Re: NSAPI/ OJI/ Applet plugin

2006-03-12 Thread Michael Koch
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 06:46:34PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: > Do you have a schedule/roadmap/timeline for this to be completed? When its done. Sorry, the task is so big that we cant promise any date to finish it. > What are these really missing features and how essential are they? Fixing a

Re: [kaffe] Re: NSAPI/ OJI/ Applet plugin

2006-03-09 Thread Fernando Lozano
Hi Philippe, Although home users don't see applets in every page anymore (this kind of applet usage decined in favour of Flash) they tend to find them in important applications like home-banking (virtual keyboards to prevento keyboard monitors to steal the bank account password). Enterpise users t

Re: [kaffe] Re: NSAPI/ OJI/ Applet plugin

2006-03-09 Thread Philippe Laporte
Hej, Come to think of it, how much do people use applets nowadays anyways? Is the enterprise environment any different? Lots of Swing applets? There is a good chance that I will interested in dedicating 2-4 man-weeks on this. Best Regards, Philippe Laporte Software Gatespace Telemati

[kaffe] Re: NSAPI/ OJI/ Applet plugin

2006-03-06 Thread Philippe Laporte
Hi, Michael Koch wrote: On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 01:15:03PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: Some preliminary questions: - Why is the security not finished? No one seriously using this plugin yet? Why not? Because its a hell of lot of work to audit several hundred thousend lines of ex

[kaffe] Re: NSAPI/ OJI/ Applet plugin

2006-03-06 Thread Michael Koch
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 01:15:03PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: > Some preliminary questions: > > - Why is the security not finished? No one seriously using this plugin > yet? Why not? Because its a hell of lot of work to audit several hundred thousend lines of existing code in GNU classpath.

[kaffe] Re: NSAPI/ OJI/ Applet plugin

2006-03-06 Thread Philippe Laporte
Hej, The need for a generic JNI plugin did occur to me after looking at the Kaffe plugin code... Some preliminary questions: - Why is the security not finished? No one seriously using this plugin yet? Why not? - Why non-gnu? Why not migrate to the classpath tree? - How many browser to