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Currently it is not possible to use a free Java Virtual Machine as a
Mozilla plugin because most of the free JVMs do not yet support the
Java AWT (Java GUIs). So the non-free alternatives from Sun, IBM, or
Blackdown are required. This is unfortunate as it means that your
system becomes dependent on software that you are unable to validate
and view yourself, relying on very few others to provide trustworthy
code.
An installation of Java using java-package
will setup the
appropriate plugins for Mozilla.
To manually link in a Java plugin running with an installation of, for
example, j2sdk1.4.2_03 (from Sun and installed as
/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2_03 as described in
Section 48.1) for Mozilla 1.5, link the appropriate
library to the mozilla plugin directory:
# cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
# ln -s /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
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Then run Mozilla and visit about:plugins to ensure the plug in is
found.
For firefox the procedure is the same except the link goes into
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins.
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