Antclick 1.2 - Downloaded and installed

click — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:29:32 GMT

All seems to be fine with Antville. It looks like, Apple MacOs X users where left behind and they must deal with buggy versions of Java. For whatever reason, Java on the Mac comes from Apple. Java on Windows, Linux and Solaris comes from Sun. Apple is always behind the curve, that is, they are late in releasing the latest versions of Java for the Mac OSX. It is time to switch servers.

When I start Antclick I get the following at the terminal window of a Mac Os X.4.11 XServer:

Last login: Fri Mar 12 16:06:36 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
idecdigital:~ admin$ /Users/admin/Desktop/antclick-1.2-beta/start.sh
Starting Helma in directory /Users/admin/Desktop/antclick-1.2-beta
Starting HTTP server on port 8080
Adding to classpath: /Users/admin/Desktop/antclick-1.2-beta/lib/ext/h2.jar
Starting Helma 1.7.0 (October 31 2009) on Java 1.5.0_19
2010-03-13 14:37:42.066:INFO::Logging to STDERR via org.mortbay.log.StdErrLog
2010-03-13 14:37:42.097:INFO::jetty-6.1.22
2010-03-13 14:37:42.151:INFO::Started SelectChannelConnector@0.0.0.0:8080

But, as soon I tried to create a new site it came with the error:

TypeError: Cannot call property toASCII in object [JavaPackage java.net.IDN]. It is not a function, it is "object".

I'm running the last Java version available at software update (Java for Mac OS X.4.11 release 9 from 15 of June 2009)

idecdigital:~ admin$ java -version
java version "1.5.0_19"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_19-b02-306)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_19-138, mixed mode)

It looks like that the Rhino engine is not seeing the class that we are attempting to use or here it is considering the invoked method, "toASCII" as a property instead of a method. I need to find out why Rhino script is not able to get the Java class. it seems most likely that we are suffering some sort of user error. Either the class isn't in the jar that is actually getting loaded, or the wrong jar is getting put into libext or something.

I believe most of this kind of errors it is because of not using the right syntax to reference the java class.

I read in the site.js document the following // FIXME:
// 1. Check if IDN class is available (Java 6!)
// 2. toASCII() should be called somewhere else

I don't know if IDN class is available (Java 6!)
I don't know where toASCII should be called.

I don't know what to do!!

Java on Macs

click — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:05:57 GMT

Apple Computer supplies their own version of Java. Users must use the Software Update feature (available on the Apple menu) to check that they have the most up-to-date version of Java for their Mac.

Java on Macs

Apple Mac users are often stuck with buggy versions of Java. For whatever reason, Java on the Mac comes from
Apple. Java on Windows, Linux and Solaris comes from Sun. Apple is always behind the curve, that is, they
are late in releasing the latest versions of Java for the Mac OSX.

December 3, 2009: Apple issued updates to their versions of Java.
The latest version of Java for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is 1.6.0_17.
The latest versions of Java for OS X 10.5 Leopard are 1.6.0_17
and 1.5.0_22. The 1.4.x family of Java has been discontinued.

September 3, 2009: The latest versions of Java for Leopard and Snow Leopard are
1.6.0_15, 1.5.0_20 and 1.4.2_22. Tiger users don't
get the latest updates and thus are forced to run dangerous, buggy versions of Java (either 1.5.0_19 or 1.4.2_21).

June 15, 2009: Apple today released a fix for OS X 10.4
and 10.5 to the problem described below.
If you are running OS X 10.4 then the safe versions of Java are 1.5.0_19 and 1.4.2_21 (download here).
If you are running OS X 10.5, then the safe versions of Java are 1.6.0_13, 1.5.0_19 and 1.4.2_21 (
download here).

May 20, 2009: All Macs running Java are vulnerable to a security problem with Apple's implementation of Java.
The only fix was to turn off Java. Macworld has
instructions on disabling Java
in Safari, Firefox, OmniWeb, Camino, Opera and iCab.
More...

As of April 22, 2009, I'm told that the latest version of Java for OS X is 1.6.0_07-b06-153. However, Java 6 is not
enabled by default even if it is installed. To switch versions, you need to run the utility
Applications/Utilities/Java/Java Preferences.app This allows you to set the preferred order for selection of a JVM
(along with various runtime and security options). You can set the order separately for applications and applets.
Currently Mac users won't have Java 6 unless they enable it manually this way. (thanks Marcus).

As of February 13, 2009, the latest versions of Java for OS X were Java for Mac OS X 10.4 Release 8 and Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 3.