The current implementation of the Java Plugin on Solaris (and Linux) does not do the right thing when it comes to handling the an OBJECT tag that contains a CODEBASE attribute. Currently, we check and see if CODEBASE is specified in the PARAMS and if it is NOT we insert a "CODEBASE=.". However, this overwrites any specification of the CODEBASE that might have occured in the ATTRIBUTES. For OBJECT tags, when CODEBASE is specified as an attribute it is important to the plugin when the OBJECT tag is of the form <OBJECT classid="java:...> which is the replacement for the <APPLET tag>.

The Windows version of the plugin appears to do the right thing. Here is another case where a common code base might have averted a bug.

See bugzilla: 52714