On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 19:53, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > > I think people have gotten confused about what you are trying to accomplish. > My understanding is that all you care about is getting java to work in your > Mozilla browser so that you can run applets. If this is correct, see below. > If not, feel free to correct me and we'll go from there. > > By way of background: > > Java is a closed-source program. For good or bad, this means Mandrake will > not distribute it. In place of Java (again for good or bad) Mandrake > distributes a Free clone of Java called Kaffee. Kaffee is good for what it > does (non-gui JDK 1.1 stuff) but is totally inappropriate for any modern > Java application that expects Java 2+ features like the Swing toolkit. > > The problem with this solution is that people think they have Java installed > (I type "java" at the command line and it comes back, what else do I need?) > and expect to be able to run the latest and greatest Java programs. Sadly, > Kaffe (more often than not) doesn't work with those programs and people are > left to wonder why. > > If you want to run java applets in Mozilla, Kaffee will not work at all > since it doesn't support (to my knowledge) the Mozilla plugin architecture. > This means that you will have to download a new JVM. > > The JVM's you can download from SUN *do* contain the necessary plug-ins to > run Java applications inside Mozilla. However, I don't believe they actually > install the JRE into your browser. This means that you need to take > additional steps to install the plugins before you can get applets to work. > This isn't a hard process and is well documented on the net. > http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/mozilla_java_plugin.html has some straight > forward instructions on how to do this for Java 1.4. It will work the same > (with slightly different paths) for Java 1.3 as well. Even though the > process isn't very hard, SUN *really* should fix this so that it auto > installs if they haven't already. > > There is, however, an easier way to install the Java plugin into Mozilla > directly. Since Mozilla and Netscape use the same plug-in architecture, you > can download the Netscape-specific java installer and install it into your > Mozilla browser. > > >From ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.2.3/unix/linux22/xpi > download jre.xpi. It's not small, coming in at around 15Mb. If you are using > the default version of Mozilla that Mandrake installed for you, you will > probably need to perform the following steps as root. If you're using a > version you've downloaded and have in your home directory, you can proceed > logged in as yourself. Once the file has been downloaded, open Mozilla and > choose file->open file. Then select "all files (*)" in the "files of type" > drop down and select the jre.xpi file you just downloaded. It will ask you > for permission to install the file and once you give it, will do it's magic. > After that, I would recommend closing and re-opening Mozilla. At that point, > you should have a fully functional JRE 1.3 installation. > > I don't see any reason now why you would need a JRE 1.4 installation. If for > some weird reason you do, I'm sure there's a 1.4 JRE xpi on the net > somewhere. > > Which process should you follow? It depends on what you want. The xpi method > is much easier, but it only installs the JRE. If you need Java for other > things than applets, you may want to try downloading the JDK from SUN and > then following the instructions to get it bolted into Mozilla. > > I hope this helps. If not, please let us know what else we can do to help! > > Best regards, >
Just a quick "Thank-you!" A really helpful summary of what I find to be a confusing subject (mind you, I'm easily confused." David -- "The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory." (Paul Fix)
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