Thursday, October 20th, 2005

Oracle Java Applications on Linux

Filed under: — Daniel Lemire @ 18:09

A nameless university is using Oracle’s jinitiator applets on some management web sites. Jinitiator is just Oracle’s version of the Java JVM, but you can use any recent JVM and be happy. The trick under Linux is to fool the browser into interpreting the mime-type “application/x-jinit-applet” (specific to Oracle) as just an ordinary applet. As it turns out, you just have to edit a small text file called pluginreg.dat.

Reference: Oracle Apps on Linux - AVallark.

See also my posts Oracle buys Hyperion, JOLAP versus the Oracle Java API, IBM, Oracle and Microsoft freeing their databases and Oracle and MySQL — is MySQL in a weak position?

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5 Comments »

  1. how exactly do you fool the browser I am trying to run oracle apps that use the jinitiator on linux using firefox

    Comment by Luke — 27/7/2006 @ 7:50

  2. Luke: please see hyperlink I offer.

    Comment by Daniel Lemire — 27/7/2006 @ 8:13

  3. how exactly do you fool the browser I am trying to run oracle apps that use the jinitiator on linux using firefox

    Comment by Avijeet Banerjee — 26/8/2006 @ 10:06

  4. How do you fool the browser. I am trying to run oracle apps that use the jinitiator on RedHat Linux using Mozilla Firefox.

    Expecting your earlier reply soon.

    Regards

    Ramesh

    Comment by Ramesh — 8/9/2006 @ 13:05

  5. That link is dead. Would you please post the relevant excerpt of your pluginreg.dat file?

    Comment by Niels Olson — 18/6/2008 @ 14:48

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