[Proteopedia] Unable author scenes in Snow Leopard

[Jaime Prilusky]

Dear Eric,

On Mac 10.8.3 (Mountain Lion), Safari 6.0.4 and Firefox 20.0, with Java 1.6.0_45 also fails, reporting a 'security access denied'

Jaim
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Dr Jaime Prilusky
Head Bioinformatics 
R&D Bioinformatics and Data Management
Department of Biological Services
Weizmann Institute of Science
76100 Rehovot - Israel

mail: Jaime.Prilusky at weizmann.ac.il
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OCA, http://oca.weizmann.ac.il (the protein structure/function database)
Proteopedia, http://proteopedia.org (because life has more than 2D)
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On Apr 29, 2013, at 12:57 PM, Eric Martz <emartz at microbio.umass.edu>
 wrote:

> Dear Proteopedia Users:
> 
> It appears to me that there is a problem in the current version of Java for Mac Snow Leopard that precludes authoring scenes in Proteopedia. The problem is not present in Windows 7, where a newer version of Java is available.
> 
> I am interested to hear from users of other Apple OS versions (10.5 Leopard, 10.7 Lion, or Mountain Lion). Please report also your version of Java (open Jmol menu by clicking on "Jmol", Main Menu, About, System). Also interested in reports from users of other versions of Windows.
> 
> If, like me, your usual workstation uses Snow Leopard, you may need to work on a different workstation, such as a Windows system, in order to author scenes in Proteopedia (at least for now -- hopefully this problem will be fixed soon by a new release of Java).
> 
> DETAILS ABOUT THE PROBLEM
> 
> Today I tried authoring scenes in Proteopedia for the first time in a couple of months.
> 
> Using Snow Leopard (OS 10.6.8) with the current version of Java (1.6.0_45) I cannot load PDB files or saved scenes into Proteopedia's Scene Authoring Tool (SAT). I get a tiny red message in Jmol. Opening the Java Console, I can see the message. It is a Java security access exception. This has been reproducible on two different Macs (same OS same Java version) with two different logins to Proteopedia, and in Safari, Chrome and Firefox. On rare occasions, the PDB file does load -- so the problem is not 100% of the time, but it is over 90% of the time in my testing.
> 
> However I can load PDB files and saved scenes into the SAT using Windows 7, Java 1.7.0_21, in both Internet Explorer and Chrome.
> 
> Sincerely, Eric
> 
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