Setting Proxy

[powertower]

Can someone tell me how to set default proxy settings for java? Windows allows you to do this in control panel-java. Does Ubuntu have something similar? Its causing my java apps to time out and Firefox to freeze.

Ubuntu 10.04

java version "1.6.0_18"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.8) (6b18-1.8-0ubuntu1)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode)

[the_olo]

See the file /etc/java-6-openjdk/net.properties - you cna place the default values for http.proxyHost, http.proxyPort and other Java system properties over there.

If you're not using the official Ubuntu's OpenJDK package, then /etc/java-6-openjdk may not be present.

In such a case, net.properties will be present in the jre/lib subdirectory of your JDK installation.

[efflandt]

I don't know about java in particular, but you can make general proxy settings in System > Preferences > Network Proxy. And you can set that "System Wide" (so it will work for all browsers, etc.).