Exercise 0: Install and Configure Lab Environment (10 minutes)
In addition to the
contents of this lab's zip file, you should have the following software installed
on your computer:
* If you don't care about Java FX, Netbeans 6.0+ is enough for you to finish all Applet related execises.
If java is not in
your default execution path, you will need to set JAVA_HOME
to point to the directory where it is installed.
Java Plug-in also needs to be configured as follows.
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Windows Platform
On the Windows platform, the new plug-in is
automatically enabled after the installation of the JRE. No user
intervention is necessary.
Solaris™ or Linux
Place a symlink to
.../jre/lib/{i386,sparc}/libnpjp2.so into either your Firefox 3
firefox/plugins directory or your <user_home>/.mozilla/plugins directory. Remove
any stray preexisting symlinks to the libjavaplugin_oji.so library.
jason@jason2:~$
cd .mozilla/
jason@jason2:~/.mozilla$ mkdir plugins
jason@jason2:~/.mozilla$ cd plugins
jason@jason2:~/.mozilla/plugins$ ln -s
/usr/jdk/jdk1.6.0_12/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so libnpjp2.so
jason@jason2:~/.mozilla/plugins$ ls -l
total 1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jason staff 45 2009-03-19 15:42 libnpjp2.so ->
/usr/jdk/jdk1.6.0_12/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so
jason@jason2:~/.mozilla/plugins$
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To make sure the plugin is installed correctly, open firefox, and input ´about:plugins´, the next
generation Java plugin should be listed in it as shown below.

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