jdk and java plugin for newbies - icedtea6-stubs and openjdk6?

[bdsfbsd at att.net]

Hi all,


Its all the rage lately for newbies to ask why they can't get Java to work  
with Firefox 3.6 on FreeBSD. I've been searching, found many threads, same  
question, few answers. I'm looking to get a working JDK, regardless of  
whether I might succeed in getting FF 3.6 to work (I don't mind using an  
older version of FF) but solving the plugin problem at the same time would  
be nice.

I see in the ports collection these two:
http://www.freshports.org/java/icedtea6-stubs/
http://www.freshports.org/java/openjdk6/

I wonder what "stubs" means.. As I understand it, IcedTea provides a  
browser plugin, and openjdk6 appears to be at JDK 6 Release 11, which is  
sufficient for FF 3.6, so would installing the above two ports put me on  
the road toward a functioning JDK _and_ FF 3.6? I understand I may have to  
make a symlink in ./mozilla/plugins or some such other detail, but do I  
have the main idea right here? Is this the answer to all the "Java not  
working with Firefox" requests that are going around lately?

Thanks,
Brian