R12 – Firefox and Java – KentW Limited

I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running.

Firefox

Firefox 3 does not work with R12. I could get forms to work however framework pages had problems with buttons. So install Firefox 2 instead.

Java Plug-in

For R12.0.4 on OEL desktop you want to use JRE 1.5.0.13 otherwise you have to fiddle with the context file.

You can always connect to the EBS from Windows but you want to test if the EBS stack works at all first.

I tried and could not get it to work in Linux with any other JRE version.

Download Java plug-in JRE 1.5.0.13 from:

http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/5.0_13/index.html

For Linux

Install JRE using this script (java.sh):

#!/bin/bash
SOURCE=/oracle/install/jre
JAVA=/usr/java
DIR=jre1.5.0_13
PLUGIN=libjavaplugin_oji.so
if [ ! -d $JAVA/$DIR ] #check if already installed
then
if [ ! -d $DIR ] #check if already unpacked
then
$SOURCE/jre-1_5_0_13-linux-i586.bin
fi
fi
if [ ! -d $JAVA/$DIR ] #check if already installed
then
mv $DIR $JAVA
fi
if [ -d $JAVA/$DIR ] #check if already installed
then
rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/$PLUGIN #remove plugin
ln -s $JAVA/$DIR/plugin/i386/ns7/$PLUGIN /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins #recreate plugin link
fi

The script is using the plugin in …/ns7/… otherwise Firefox will regularly crash especially “manage addons” in preferences.

For WindowsXP

First ensure no NP* plug-in files exist in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins:

$ del C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\NP*

Manually copy the correct java version plug-in to the Mozilla plug-in:

$ copy C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_13\bin\NP* C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins

In case you have more than one version of java installed you may need to disable Mozilla Java plugin scan.

Enter the URL: about:config like this:

In the filer box enter JRE and you will get:

Double click on the value and update to 1.9 which is a java version that does not exist yet and hence essentially disables the java plug-in scan.

Close and restart the browser and now 1.5.13 should always be the default.

Connect

Enter the following URL in Firefox to connect to EBS

http://localhost.localdomain:8000/OA_HTML/AppsLogin