[ale] HOW2 implement J2RE so that Mozilla uses it when accessing web pages ?

[Geoffrey]

Jim wrote:
> I've tried about 3 times to get java to work with Firefox.  Never have 
> been able to do it.  The instructions say you can put it <here>  or you 
> can put it <there> or ...  but none of those locations worked.  I 
> searched the net for solutions but everyone else except me seemed to 
> have found the magic.  8(

As someone else noted, you simply create a link from the java plugin to 
the browser plugin directory.  Here are a couple of examples from 
various machines I've got running around here:

RHWS 4

file /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so: symbolic link to 
`/usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so'

SuSE 10

file /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so: symbolic link to 
`/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-sun-1.4.2.06/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so'

Sometimes the install works, sometimes it does not.  If I install the 
java goods and It doesn't work in my browser, I simply create the sym 
link by hand:

ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so 
/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey