https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-openvms/auto-dowload-jre-via-applet-lt-object-gt-tag/m-p/4480035#M42686 Hi,<BR /><BR />Does anybody have a working <OBJECT> web-page tag that will (on windows only<BR />is fine for this case) trigger an automatic download of a version-compliant<BR />JRE from SUN, if it is not found on the client's system?<BR /><BR />I have seen these pages which *should* be enough: -<BR /><A href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/plugin/developer_guide/using_tags.html" target="_blank">http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/plugin/developer_guide/using_tags.html</A><BR /><A href="http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/plugin/developer_guide/using_tags.html" target="_blank">http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/plugin/developer_guide/using_tags.html</A><BR /><A href="http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/deployment/deployment-guide/autodl-files.html" target="_blank">http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/deployment/deployment-guide/autodl-files.html</A><BR /><BR />But I still can't get my applet's object tag to trigger a Java JRE download<BR />if the version needed is not present :-(<BR /><BR />- I'm happy using dynamic-version and have specified the classid to reflect<BR />such for IE. (Don't know how to specify that for FireFox 'cos my classid<BR />there is "java:MyClassName.class"<BR />- I have the new java_version <PARAM /> tag set to "1.N+" for recent versions<BR />- I have also #Version=1.n.n.n at the end of the <OBJECT>'s codebase<BR />- (For non IE) I have (in the object tag and not as a PARAM)<BR />type="application/x-java-applet;version=1.n.n.n"<BR />- I jave no interest in that JNLP and/or deployjava.js bollocks (and even<BR />less in explaining why I have no interest :-)<BR />- A picture is worth a thousand words, there shouldn't be many who find this<BR />as challenging as me, and I imagine there is a plethora of such applets out<BR />there on the web to poin me at<BR /><BR />If you know of such an example please point me at it.<BR /><BR />Cheers Richard Maher<BR /><BR />PS. I did notice that deployJava.js used<BR />clsid:CAFEEFAC-DEC7-0000-0000-ABCDEFFEDCBA for IE and the embed tag for<BR />Netscape in an old version I had, but now they seem to obfuscate the JS for<BR />some reason.<BR /></OBJECT></OBJECT> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:41:29 GMT Richard J Maher 2009-08-15T03:41:29Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-openvms/auto-dowload-jre-via-applet-lt-object-gt-tag/m-p/4480035#M42686 Hi,<BR /><BR />Does anybody have a working <OBJECT> web-page tag that will (on windows only<BR />is fine for this case) trigger an automatic download of a version-compliant<BR />JRE from SUN, if it is not found on the client's system?<BR /><BR />I have seen these pages which *should* be enough: -<BR /><A href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/plugin/developer_guide/using_tags.html" target="_blank">http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/plugin/developer_guide/using_tags.html</A><BR /><A href="http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/plugin/developer_guide/using_tags.html" target="_blank">http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/plugin/developer_guide/using_tags.html</A><BR /><A href="http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/deployment/deployment-guide/autodl-files.html" target="_blank">http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/deployment/deployment-guide/autodl-files.html</A><BR /><BR />But I still can't get my applet's object tag to trigger a Java JRE download<BR />if the version needed is not present :-(<BR /><BR />- I'm happy using dynamic-version and have specified the classid to reflect<BR />such for IE. (Don't know how to specify that for FireFox 'cos my classid<BR />there is "java:MyClassName.class"<BR />- I have the new java_version <PARAM /> tag set to "1.N+" for recent versions<BR />- I have also #Version=1.n.n.n at the end of the <OBJECT>'s codebase<BR />- (For non IE) I have (in the object tag and not as a PARAM)<BR />type="application/x-java-applet;version=1.n.n.n"<BR />- I jave no interest in that JNLP and/or deployjava.js bollocks (and even<BR />less in explaining why I have no interest :-)<BR />- A picture is worth a thousand words, there shouldn't be many who find this<BR />as challenging as me, and I imagine there is a plethora of such applets out<BR />there on the web to poin me at<BR /><BR />If you know of such an example please point me at it.<BR /><BR />Cheers Richard Maher<BR /><BR />PS. I did notice that deployJava.js used<BR />clsid:CAFEEFAC-DEC7-0000-0000-ABCDEFFEDCBA for IE and the embed tag for<BR />Netscape in an old version I had, but now they seem to obfuscate the JS for<BR />some reason.<BR /></OBJECT></OBJECT> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:41:29 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-openvms/auto-dowload-jre-via-applet-lt-object-gt-tag/m-p/4480035#M42686 Richard J Maher 2009-08-15T03:41:29Z