http://thedesignspace.net/ My daily explorations, troubleshooting, solutions and discoveries. en-us ellen@thedesignspace.net Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:49:48 -0500 http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000815.html When running Java or other types of applications which use an XML file as part of the input, you may see this error: The Processing Instruction Target Matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is Not Allowed. Often the cause is a malformed XML file, with a common problem being a blank line accidentally inserted before the required first line of the xml: [ A... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000812.html While setting up Nutch on a Mac, I kept getting this error in the terminal: Error: JAVA_HOME is not set To fix the error on OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard), enter the following at the command prompt: export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home) On 10.5 and above, the command line tool /usr/libexec/java_home dynamically finds the top Java version specified in Java Preferences for the... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000798.html If Firefox won't launch java applets, but Internet Explorer will, you may need to change some settings in the Java control panel to turn on Applet support for Firefox. (Expert users: One sign that this is the issue rather than some Java security exception is that the Java console will be completely blank when you try to launch the applet... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000779.html Our LMS uses Java applets to transmit SCORM data back and forth between learning activity and the LMS. Sometimes this causes problems, because Java security on various browsers is increasingly strict. However we can usually keep IE 6, 7, 8, Firefox on PC and Safari on the Mac working. Mac-Firefox is usually somewhat problematic. In the past, learning modules would... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000519.html If you are having problems with applications which use liveconnect, you may find it helpful to know that there are some issues with certain updates of Java 1.6 and Liveconnect. I've found that sometimes installing early access update 10 fixes the problems. This issue came up because our Docent 6.5 LMS uses Java as the SCORM API adaptor and the... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000480.html When attempting to launch browser-based SCORM courseware, people have been getting the error: "Several Java Virtual Machines running in the same process caused an error" Apparently many people have this issue since upgrading java. I came across it because it can affect the delivery of elearning courses if the learning management system relies on a java-applet based scorm adaptor to... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000337.html Flash video has several advantages over other formats, especially the fact that the Flash plugin comes pre-installed on most browsers. For this reason I've been looking at using streaming Flash video in sites which must support a wide variety of browsers and platforms.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000201.html It's not obvious when using Safari on the Mac how to get the Java console to start up. Go to Applications/Utilities/Java/Java 1.x/x Plugin Settings and turn it on there. Then it will show up whenever Java is active in Safari. This also works in Firefox, although that has menu items you can download as extensions that will show the console...