From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 22 07:02:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A47916A4BF for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 07:02:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mintaka.emea.mci.com (mintaka.wcom.co.uk [193.131.254.155]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C9C143F85 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 07:02:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip.payne@uk.mci.com) Received: from sirius.emea.mci.com ([166.59.189.29] helo=sirus.emea.mci.com) by mintaka.emea.mci.com with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19qCUu-0000Fy-7c for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:02:36 +0100 Received: from ocampa.wcom.co.uk ([166.59.189.250] helo=ocampa.emea.mci.com) by sirus.emea.mci.com with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19qCQg-0001kb-00; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:58:14 +0100 Received: from [62.191.1.65] (helo=ukcamgate1.cbg.uk.corp.eu.uu.net) by ocampa.emea.mci.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 19qCQg-0005cf-1f; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 13:58:14 +0000 Received: by ukcamgate1.cbg.uk.corp.eu.uu.net with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:58:11 +0100 Message-ID: <36D04A8168B2D41182250008C7E6F8780374FA79@ukcamexch2.cbg.uk.corp.eu.uu.net> From: Philip Payne To: 'Matthew Seaman' Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:58:11 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Spam-Score: -3.2 (---) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *19qCQg-0001kb-00*zTVjNiJkr/s* cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: MozillaFirebird and Java X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:02:39 -0000 > 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.