jdk and java plugin for newbies - icedtea6-stubs and openjdk6?

[Ronald Klop]

On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:58:45 +0200, <bdsfbsd at att.net> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
>
> Its all the rage lately for newbies to ask why they can't get Java to  
> work with Firefox 3.6 on FreeBSD. I've been searching, found many  
> threads, same question, few answers. I'm looking to get a working JDK,  
> regardless of whether I might succeed in getting FF 3.6 to work (I don't  
> mind using an older version of FF) but solving the plugin problem at the  
> same time would be nice.
>
> I see in the ports collection these two:
> http://www.freshports.org/java/icedtea6-stubs/
> http://www.freshports.org/java/openjdk6/
>
> I wonder what "stubs" means.. As I understand it, IcedTea provides a  
> browser plugin, and openjdk6 appears to be at JDK 6 Release 11, which is  
> sufficient for FF 3.6, so would installing the above two ports put me on  
> the road toward a functioning JDK _and_ FF 3.6? I understand I may have  
> to make a symlink in ./mozilla/plugins or some such other detail, but do  
> I have the main idea right here? Is this the answer to all the "Java not  
> working with Firefox" requests that are going around lately?

AFAIK icedtea6 was used to build openjdk6 in the past. That is why it is  
in the ports. But today openjdk6 builds without the code in icedtea. But  
yes, icedtea should contain code to build a java plugin. I don't know how.  
Maybe the icedtea folks have a mailinglist to.

Ronald