java in a browser (was: Re: [CFT] Firefox 3.6 for FreeBSD)

[barbara]

> In article <20100205091256.GA97892 at misty.eyesbeyond.com> you write:
> >On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 09:27:49AM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> >> Greg Lewis wrote:
> >> > On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 07:48:37AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> >> >> On 2010-Feb-04 01:19:33 +0100, Martin Wilke <miwi at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >> >>> The problem was that starting Firefox 3.6 with certain
> >> >>> addons installed was not possible. Now it looks like all
> >> >>> problems are solved and we can start a CFT.
> >> >> Thanks to all for your efforts.
> >> >>
> >> >>> weekend. We should also note that the java plugin currently
> >> >>> does not work with 3.6.
> >> >> This is a blocker for me.  What is involved in building a
> >> >> java plugin to suit the new FF36 interface?  Please let me know
> >> >> if there's anything I can do to assist the effort.
> >> > 
> >> > Well, I don't believe the java plugin works with Firefox 3.5, so this isn't
> >> > a new development.
> >> 
> >> You are mistaken here, the Java plugin works fine with firefox35.
> >
> >Hmm.  So I've got the plugin installed from the current diablo-jre16 port
> >and firefox35 doesn't find it.  What does your set up look like?  For me
> >its:
> >
> >> ls -l /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so 
> >lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  63 Nov  8 10:50 /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/local/diablo-jre1.6.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> >
> >Are you using it from jdk16 perhaps?
> >
> >> A real annoyance is that the OpenJDKs don't build the plugin, you
> >> need one of the SUN or Diablo JDKs.
> >
> >They don't build it because Sun doesn't include it...
> 
> Btw I meanwhile found a kind of `workaround' until we have a new sun jdk
> or icedtea port:  konqueror (both the kde3 and the kde4 versions) runs
> java applets via a normal `java' executable (and apparently its own ipc
> wrapper code), so it doesn't need a plugin.  And this also means it
> even works with openjdk7 (and linux-sun-jdk in a native browser), at
> least it did for me doing a simple test on
> 	http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html
> after setting either JAVA_HOME or configuring a full path in
> settings -> konqueror -> java and javascript -> path to java executable.
> 
>  All of these worked for me:
> 
> zsh triton8% ll /usr/local/*/bin/java
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  95014 May 13  2008 /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.6.0/bin/java*
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  47308 Oct 11 10:40 /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.6.0/bin/java*
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  60214 Feb 13 06:15 /usr/local/openjdk7/bin/java*
> zsh triton8%
> 
>  HTH, :)
> 	Juergen


Another option is to install www/seamonkey2 which still uses a gecko version compatible with the plugins available on FreeBSD (diablo/sun).
At least until it will get a new gecko version.

Barbara