Java3D and Firefox

[Chris Hodgins]

Hi,

I would like to bring to your attention this post to the mailing list:
http://www.mailarch.org/java3d_and_mozilla-2651686-2863-a.html

The basic summary is that the Java3D port works great in appletviewer or 
  running normally with the java command.  However the port seems not to 
work on firefox and in the posters case mozilla.  Insetad when running 
the applets a red cross appears in the corner of the applet and the java 
console shows there was a NoClassDefException thrown.  The OP obviously 
spent a few painful hours working out what caused it and tracked it down 
to the creation of the file ~/.java/deployment/log/plugin142.trace.  The 
fix suggested was to chmod the log directory to 555 to stop the creation 
of the file.

I have just installed the port and have exactly the same problem.  I 
used the OP's fix and everything worked again.  I don't know enough 
about the Java ports or have the time to look into and I am happy it 
works now.  However, I would imagine someone should take a look at it 
and see if it has a proper fix.

This is what I am running:

$ uname -a
FreeBSD paranoia 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #1: Fri Dec  3 18:15:16 
GMT 2004     root at paranoia:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/paranoia  i386

firefox-1.0_5,1
java3d-1.3.1_1
javavmwrapper-2.0_2
jdk-1.4.2p6_7
jdk-doc-1.4.2
linux-sun-jdk-1.4.2.06

I have also just realised that any java3d applet runs at 100% cpu.

Chris