IcedTea-Web for OS/2 and eCS

Version 1.3 Beta (2013-03-20)

This is a beta release intended for testing purposes.



INTRODUCTION

This document contains a brief information on the OS/2 version of the
IcedTea-Web product. Please read it carefully before starting your work.
You may also visit the project page at

  http://svn.netlabs.org/java/wiki

to get more information and the latest news and also to report bugs.

To get a brief list of OS/2-specific changes from release to release
please see the CHANGES.OS2 file included in this distribution.



REQUIREMENTS

In order to use the IcedTea-Web browser plugin, you will need the following:

  - A OS/2 Warp 4 Fixpack 16+, OS/2 Warp 4.5 or eComStation operating system.

  - OpenJDK 1.6.0 Build 25 GA3 or later (and all its requirements):

    ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/java/openjdk6_b25_ga3/openjdk6_b25_jre_os2_ga3-20120721.zip

  - GLib2 libraries version 2.25.15 build 4:

    ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/java/icedtea-web/misc/glib2-2_25_15-4.zip

If you use the YUM/RPM package manager, you may install all the requirements
with a single command from the command line (except OpenJDK which is not in RPM
yet):

    yum install glib2



INSTALLATION

  Make sure that the correct version of OpenJDK is installed and listed in your
  PATH environment variable and the correct version of GLib2 libraries is
  installed.

  Unszip the contents of the distribution archive to a directory containing
  Mozilla plugins in your system. This directory is pointed to by the
  MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable and is usually:

    X:\PROGRAMS\MOZ_PLUG

  where X: is your boot drive (check your CONFIG.SYS for the exact location).

  Now (re)start your Mozilla family product (e.g. Firefox). If everything is
  done correctly, you should now see the IcedTea-Web browser plugin in the list
  of installed plugins if you visit the special web-page "about:plugins" from
  the browser.

  You may check the plugin functionality by visiting the following test web-page
  on the Java web-site:

    http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp

  Note that you may also specify the location of the Java runtime and plugin
  jars using the ICEDTEA_WEB_JRE and ICEDTEA_WEB_DATA environment variables,
  respectively:

    set ICEDTEA_WEB_JRE=<path_to_jre>
    set ICEDTEA_WEB_DATA=<path_to_jars>



CURRENT LIMITATIONS

  1. Some Java applets may stop redrawing their contents. You may need to
     refresh the page or restart the browser. This will be fixed later.

  See the project roadmap for more information on the current progress and
  future plans:

    http://svn.netlabs.org/java/roadmap

  Feel free to request new features and report bugs using the project bug
  tracker abaialble at:

    http://svn.netlabs.org/java/report



CREDITS

Dmitriy Kuminov (development)
Silvan Scherrer (management)

netlabs.org (hosting & support)

Oracle Corporation (original OpenJDK product)

All IcedTea-Web authors (see AUTHORS)

We also want to THANK all individuals and organizations who made the donations
to this project and helped to make it happen.


Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates.
OS/2 and OS/2 Warp are trademarks of the IBM Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
eComStation is a trademark of Serenity Systems International and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
