(jdk15) Java plugin for firefox - how to enable?

[Greg Lewis]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:58:57PM -0700, Ken Gunderson wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 18:42:49 -0700
> Darren Spruell <phatbuckett at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm running FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE on amd64 and would like to get the Sun
> > JDK browser plugin set up on my system. I use firefox from ports.
> > 
> > If I understand right, java/jdk15 will build a native JDK for FreeBSD
> > on i386 and amd64. http://www.freebsd.org/java/dists/15.html suggests
> > that the port will support Web Start and the browser plugin for
> > Mozilla and Firefox.
> > 
> > I notice the Makefile for jdk15 checks to see if the architecture is
> > amd64 and if so, sets WITHOUT_WEB=yes which the inline comments say
> > will cause the browser plugin to not be built. I suspect this is the
> > case also because after installing jdk15 I can still only find the
> 
> fyi- I cannot even get jdk15 to build under AMD using fbsd-i386
> WITH_MOZILLA=firefox.

The browser plugin wasn't 64 bit clean on either the browser or Java end
for Mozilla and Firefox <= 1.0.  Firefox 1.5 has changed the interface and
it isn't backwards compatible.  So currently you are doubly screwed getting
the plugin to work on amd64.

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