Problem:

Lots of stuffs in installer script are related to registry registration for JPI. It is very messy to maintain.

Solution:

Create a new DLL to do the same registration functions, and make the installer calls into it during installation/uninstallation, so the installer script will be cleaner. Also, the registration functionalities in the new DLL may be reused by other JPI modules.

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We may want to add support for the following, while making the registry settings more modular:
     
 * Be able to enable jdk1.3 by explicit regsvr32 beans.ocx. But
      it does not work for jdk1.4 (on running of an applet, the plug-in
      seems to try to load applet-rectangle, though without background,
      and applet does not appear on the end).

      Try the following steps several times:

      1. Run DOS:
         c:\Windows\System\regsvr32 -u .\jre\bin\beans.ocx

         for all jdks including those under c:\Program Files

      2. Reboot computer

      3. Reinstall jdk1.4, jdk1.3.1 or jdk1.3 from scratch

      4. Since above steps did not work for plug-in applets,
         played with all possible options of plug-ins in Control Panel,
         like selection particular VM, cashing, enable console, etc.

      5. Since above steps also did not work, tried to run DOS:
         c:\Windows\System\regsvr32 .\jre\bin\beans.ocx

         Results are following: the only 1.3 plug-in can be used
         only after all 5 steps.

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