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Date:      Mon, 20 May 2002 23:50:29 -0700
From:      "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kg@dccnet.com>
To:        Korey Pelton <peltkore@hotmail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How do you get java applets to work in mozilla?
Message-ID:  <3CE9EE35.7000106@dccnet.com>
References:  <LAW2-F103rWQnG6CSZ200004ad2@hotmail.com>

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Korey Pelton wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have java enabled in preferences in mozilla.  When I first encountered 
> an applet, mozilla said that I needed to download the java plugin.  It 
> gave me 3 selections, and I chose the one marked linux.  After it 
> downloaded, the plugin installed automatically and then I restarted the 
> browser and it gave me the same error message as I got when I first 
> encountered the java applet.  So then I installed the 
> /usr/ports/java/jre port to see if that made any difference, and it 
> didn't.  I would appreciate it if I could get a link to some docs 
> covering this subject.

To make a long story short you "simply" build and install the native
jdk13 (Sun's Java Developers Kit).
Be advised when  you are getting your distfiles you will also need
linux-jdk13(Sun Java Development Kit 1.3 for Linux).

It will install the javaplugin to mozilla.

Regards,

KG


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