SCORM reliance on JAVA
Apr 22, 2015
By
Desiré Lewis
Hi All,
As some of you may or may not know Google will be removing the Java functionality from their Chrome browser later on this year and have already by default started disabling Java in the current browsers.
As someone who doesn't fully understand the programming side of things my question is, how much, if at all are SCORM packages (1.2 & 2004) published in Storyline 1 reliant on using Javascript to communicate etc with the LMS? (We use Moodle) And if they do use Java, with this being disabled in Chrome (and IE not being a long term solution) which other format of packaging would be the next best thing?
Thanks
8 Replies
Hi Desire,
Have you reached out to Moodle in regards to this issue? I know that Java isn't one of the elements within our viewing requirements, but each LMS is a bit different in terms of how they handle that.
Please feel free to keep us posted here and share any updates as I know other community members utilize Java.
Is there an article or something you could point me to? I'd like to read more about this.
One question I have is, are they disabling Java or Javascript later this year.? They may sound similar, but they are actually pretty unrelated programming languages, and used for very different things. If it is just Java being disabled, then (depending on your LMS setup) you will probably not see many issues with this. If Javascript functionality is being disabled, that could cause more serious problems with SCORM on other online functions in general.
They are removing support for "JAVA" - not "JavaScript" which are 2 separate things with a similar name. Moodle doesn't contain any "Java" code (thank goodness!) - couple of related posts here:
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=312290#p1250397
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=311748
and more detailed tech info from Google here:
http://www.chromium.org/developers/npapi-deprecation
Also probably worth pointing out that I don't think the iPhone, iPad, other tablets and mobile devices have supported plugins using Java for some years. This probably only affects organisations with corporate applications developed using older technology.
Thanks Dan for sharing those here and pointing out the distinction. A good one to remember. :-)
Thanks Dan!
Thanks Dan for the confirmation. When I first read the original post, I checked to make sure that it wasn't posted on April 1st :-). But then again, stranger things have happened in the crazy software world...
Hi Everyone,
Thanks so much for your responses! I did think that the two (JAVA and Javascript) were different but as I only really use articulate and don't understand the LMS interaction side of things wanted to know if this would still create any issues for me.
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