Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:58:11 +0100 From: Philip Payne <philip.payne@uk.mci.com> To: 'Matthew Seaman' <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: MozillaFirebird and Java Message-ID: <36D04A8168B2D41182250008C7E6F8780374FA79@ukcamexch2.cbg.uk.corp.eu.uu.net>
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> On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:59:29PM +0100, Philip Payne wrote: > > > I thought I would've been the millionth person to ask this > but I had a look > > in the archives and couldn't find anything so feel free to > tell me to RTF > > relevant article. > > > > Can someone help me setup Java & MozillaFirebird? I've > installed both > > MozillaFirebird and JDK14 from ports but on java enabled > pages mozilla still > > doesn't use it. Get nag about needing "application/x-java-vm". > > > > I don't see anything in the options that allows me to > specify the exact path > > to Java. Wild guess, do I need to symbolic link the default > Mozilla java > > location to /usr/local/jdk1.4.1/jre/bin/java? or is there > something else? > > What you need is the java plugin -- it's a loadable object that adds > java capabilities to Netscape, Mozilla and (I think) Mozilla derived > browsers like Firebird. > > The plugin is a standard part of the JDK, except that the FreeBSD > build of the plugin is disabled for JDK14 -- no one has committed > patches to the code to allow it to build correctly on FreeBSD. > > To make this work, either install JDK13 (which will sit quite happily > alongside JDK14), or go for one of the Linux versions of JDK14 and > install a linux version of Firebird. Thanks... makes sense. I'll install JDK13. Cheers, Phil.
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