Basic Live Connect support for java

[George Staikos]

Great work!  This was one of my TODO items though I did not know if I would 
ever get around to it.  We could definitely use some help in both KJava and 
NSPlugins if you're interested in continuing this work too.  The bugs 
database has a list of problems also.


On April 10, 2002 16:03, Koos Vriezen wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, David Faure wrote:
> > On Sunday 07 April 2002 19:54, Koos Vriezen wrote:
> > > Attached a patch and java classes for Live Connect. It works with the
> > > example http://www.innovation.ch/java/HTTPClient/disp_html.html. You
> > > have to put quotes around the HTML code here.
> > >
> > > Is something like this needed in KHTML?
> >
> > WOW! Yes, definitely.
> > The old bug #12904 is about this, and the french website for income tax
> > needs this as well .... I'm sure there are other websites which need
> > this. This is great - I wanted to look into this but had no clue how to
> > ;) Thanks!
>
> The bad news is, the patch only works for Java to JS calls. The good news
> is, I've attached a new patch with also support JS to Java calls. It's not
> finished yet, only one level deep is supported and calls work only with
> strings as arguments.
> But it's enough to get www.postbank.nl working. They use some kind of
> CryptoApplet for to log in. Two calls from JS to this applet are made;
> document.CryptoApplet.CA_T(strUid, strPw, strChallenge) and
> document.CryptoApplet.IsAppletLoaded. Both member lookup and member call
> work now.
> I had to hack a bit to get a synchonized call to the appletviewer. Any
> other suggestions? (grep for 'dirty' in the patch)
>
> Regards,
>
> Koos Vriezen

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George Staikos