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

bdsfbsd at att.net bdsfbsd at att.net
Sat Jun 19 16:50:21 UTC 2010


Replying to myself, for the record:
On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:58:45 -0000, <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?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian

I only needed to install openjdk6 and Opera, and Java works fine without  
any further configuration. It is only update 7, but I don't know if I  
really care. It seems that most Java stuff will work.

Brian


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