Thanks Grant.
Okay, I will produce some snippets that can
evidence these issues, and file any relevant bugs.
#4 & #5 - SWT WebKit Browser running Java
applets - Okay, I see that FAQ about running Java applets on Mac and the JVMs
colliding. From what Scott said
yesterday, could this FAQ point be in place from Mac
Carbon which could also mean that this was an issue with the older Mac
Java plugin. From my experience, the New Java Plugin2 is much more stable and
you can specify to run applets in their own process in Java Preferences. The
rule about applets is that if the codebase is the same, applets will get loaded
in the same JVM. There is also a new parameter "separate_jvm" which allows
a programmer to request a separate JVM. With these tools at hand,
it may be possible for the developer to avert the issue described in this
FAQ on Mac... if it is even still happening on the new Mac Cocoa WebKit using
the New Java Plugin2.
I also see that Java is being disabled on
Windows SWT WebKit. This may be unnecesary on Windows who seems to have no
problem with JVMs launching other JVMs.
Anyways, I would like to be able to test this and
provide some feedback. I understand that I would have to build the SWT jar,
removing the line of code that disables Java. Is the FAQ http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#howbuildjar where
I go to start this process?
Dermot
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Hi Dermot,
#1 - I
don't see this, but our cases may be different. Behaviours like this
should be consistent across the Browser implementations, so please log a
report for this and provide a means of reproducing the error. You can
probably just use http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/viewvc.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet128.java?view=co and specify a specific url to navigate to
initially.
#2 - Like Scott said,
this is very strange. If you are able to make a reproducible case of it
then please log a bug. Without a case that can be reproduced here it
will be impossible to fix this, as I've never heard of it before.
#3 - Keyboard focus generally works well
in Browsers, but it's possible that the use of AWT in your context is causing
some confusion. Again, please log a report with a snippet that shows the
problem.
#4 and #5 - See http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#browserapplets to start. The WebKit-based Browser on OS X
disables applets because the Java plug-in's attempt to launch a JVM to run the
applet collides with the JVM that's already running SWT/Eclipse, and crashes.
You'll notice in the FAQ that there are some specific contexts where a
Browser will display applets, but what differentiates these contexts is that
they always launch the JVM for running the applet out-of-process, which avoids
the JVM collision that occurs otherwise.
Regarding Browser.getWebBrowser() returning something from
WebKit, this is not something we would do because we don't expose objects
without well-defined API. WebBrowser subclasses utilized by Browser are
internal implementation, and do not expose public methods that are not already
accessible indirectly via Browser API.
Grant
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Thanks Scott. Yes, lots of good info here.
#4 - SWT WebKit
disabling Java - It would be good to look into removing that for the Mac
Cocoa WebKit implementation and also the Windows WebKit implementation. I
tested a simple applet on Windows WebKit and Mac WebKit and yes, without
the Java being enabled, applets do not work. I suspect that applets should
work, given that applets work in Mac Safari which uses the same Cocoa
based WebKit. Applets also work in Windows Safari, so technically applets
should work in the Windows SWT WebKit browser also.
I am not sure if
this is possible, but would it be possible to return a handle on the
WebKit object when calling Browser.getWebBrowser() from a WebKit style
Browser widget, just as calling Browser.getWebBrowser() returns a handle
on the JavaXPCOM nsIWebBrowser object when using
Mozilla.
Browser.getWebBrowser() returns Object, so that object could
be the nsiWebBrowser object or the WebKit object depending on the browser
style.
Something like this for Mozilla:
nsIWebBrowser webBrowser =
(nsIWebBrowser)browser.getWebBrowser();
and this for
WebKit:
WebKit webBrowser =
(WebKit)browser.getWebBrowser();
It would be nice to get a handle on
that WebKit object to take advantage of more in-depth browser features
(like enabling/disabling Java as per a users
preference).
Dermot
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>I can answer a few of these, but Grant will likely need
to answer some of >them. > > On Feb 10, 2011, at 3:05 PM,
Dermot Doherty wrote: > >> 2) Both Mozilla and WebKit on Mac
throw a "java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: >> doubleValue". It is
difficult to pinpoint exactly where this is >> occurring, but it
seems to happen when I create a new SWT browser >>
instance. >> This is not happening on Windows. >> See the
log output below: >> java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
doubleValue >> at
org.eclipse.swt.internal.cocoa.OS.objc_msgSendSuper(Native Method) >>
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.applicationSendEvent(Unknown
Source) >> at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.applicationProc(Unknown
Source) > > Given that it's java.lang.NoSuchMethodError that makes
me think we're > using reflection somewhere but the object we invoke it
on doesn't have > that method. But, I don't see any uses that call
doubleValue. It's > especially odd to see it during objc_msgSendSuper.
Check Console.app to > see if you're getting any additional
information. > > If you have a simple test case that can reproduce
it, please file a bug. > >> 4) SWT WebKit browser on Mac
disables Java when embedded in Safari. >> Explanation: When a SWT
WebKit Browser is embedded in a Java applet on >> Mac the "Enable
Java" preference gets disabled. This is not happening >> when the
Mozilla engine is used. >> Is there something in the WebKit
implementation that automatically >> disables Java that may be
getting picked up by Safari which is also using >> the same WebKit
engine. This only happens for the first SWT WebKit >> browser that
is embedded. Subsequently embedded SWT WebKit browsers on >> the
same page do not disable the Java (after manually enabling the Java
>> in Preferences > Security). > > See
WebKit.java: > >
WebPreferences.standardPreferences().setJavaEnabled(false); > >
But, it's only called once during initialization. I suspect >
standardPreferences() are per-user, so it makes sense that turning it on
> again in Java Preferences would enable it again for any additional
Browser > widgets created. > > This is probably a holdover
from Carbon. I seem to recall a situation > where you could end up
embedding Cocoa (WebKit) into Carbon and then > somehow putting a
Carbon view into the Browser. And you can't mix Carbon > and Cocoa that
way, so it makes sense to block applets. In Cocoa there may > not be a
reason to prevent that. > >> 5) Do Java Applets run in the SWT
WebKit browser? > > I don't know that we've ever tried. On the Mac
it may work now in Cocoa, > but you'd have to rebuild the SWT to try it
out. > > Hope some of that helps. > > -- Scott
K. > > ------------------ > Scott Kovatch >
IBM > Eclipse Platform Team > Pleasanton,
CA > > > >
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