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

[barbara]

> 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

Update 7...uhm...

$ /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.6.0/bin/java -version
java version "1.6.0_07"
Diablo Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_07-b02)
Diablo Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 10.0-b23, mixed mode)