JDK15 and JDK14 for Firefox and OpenOffice.

[Eric Schuele]

Chris Hodgins wrote:
> BSD Mail wrote:
> 
>> Greetings, I've installed /usr/ports/java/jdk15 then installed
>> /usr/ports/www/firefox
>> I'm not really sure why Firefox didn't detect that I have JDK15
>> installed. Also Later I'm
>> going to install OpenOffice. In OO website
>> http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/ seems they
>> want to have JDK14. My question is the following:
>>
>> 1. If for some reason OpenOffice can't use JDK15 and it needs JDK14
>> can I still keep JDK15 installed or that would cause a conflict ?
> 
> 
> The openoffice Makefile has this:
> 
> .if !defined(WITHOUT_JAVA)
> USE_JAVA=       yes
> JAVA_VERSION=   1.4+
> JAVA_BUILD=     jdk
> .endif

FWIW:
I built OO WITHOUT_JAVA, and haven't missed it.  Not sure what it was 
needed for.  Admittedly I don't do a lot with OO... docs, spreadsheets, 
open the occasional M$ Office doc.  Everything seems to work just fine 
without java.

> 
> You might want to change that to 1.5 and try again.  I am just guessing 
> though.
> 
>>
>> 2. What am I missing with Firefox ? If JDK15 doesn't work with Firefox
>> I wil install JKD14, although I thought it should work and be detected
>> by the browser. Do I have to do any linking or specifying a path for
>> the plugin ? If so please elaborate.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
> 
> 
> Looks like the firefox Makefile hard-codes the path to the java plugin:
> 
> JPI_LIST?=\
> 
> ${LOCALBASE}/jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/${ARCH}/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so \ 
>      ${LOCALBASE}/jdk1.4.1/jre/plugin/${ARCH}/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so \
> ${LOCALBASE}/diablo-jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/${ARCH}/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so 
> \       ${LOCALBASE}/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/${ARCH}/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> 
> Perhaps you could add the jdk1.5 path to the very start of this list and 
> try again?  The work around would be to just create a softlink manually 
> for 1.5.  This is the 1.4.2 link:
> 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins$ ls -l libjavaplugin_oji.so
> lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel          62 Jan 13 19:00 
> libjavaplugin_oji.so -> 
> /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> 
> Not sure if this is still true but I believe jdk15 is still in beta or 
> if not, then it has only just been released fully.
> 
> Chris
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Regards,
Eric