- LiveConnect
LiveConnect is a feature of Web browsers that allows Java and
JavaScript software to intercommunicate within a Web page. From the Java side it allows an applet to invoke the embedded scripts of a page or to access the built-in JavaScript environment, much as scripts can. Conversely, from the JavaScript side, it allows a script to invoke applet methods, or to access the Java runtime libraries, much as applets can. [Flanagan, David. (2006). JavaScript: the Definitive Guide. O'Reilly, Sebastopol, California.] [For technical details, see the Mozilla [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/LiveConnect Developer Documentation on LiveConnect] .]LiveConnect was used in
Netscape 4 to implement scriptability of NPAPI plugins.It is currently used in Rhinohide to implement a
DOM interface for applets, that allows each applet to manipulate its containing Web page, using a standard Java binding of the DOM. [ [http://zelea.com/project/textbender/o/rhinohide/description.xht Rhinohide home page] .]Browser support
In Firefox 3.1, LiveConnect support should have been removed. It has been postponed because the Java plugin on Mac OS X and Linux is still depending on it [cite web|url=https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397080|title=Disable OJI (LiveConnect) in mozilla-central] .
References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
