[ale] Java for 64bit Firefox

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 18:10 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> http://java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp says "* Please use the
> 32-bit version for Java applet and Java Web Start support."  So i
> agree yer out of luck with Sun's java.
> 
> However, gcjwebplugin is the GNU java web applet plugin for
> NPAPI-compatible browsers (like firefox).  It's in debian unstable for
> amd64 at least:
> 
>   http://packages.debian.org/sid/gcjwebplugin
> 
> I've never used it myself because i don't have much need for Java.  If
> you try it, please report back!
> 
> The ability to port your toolset to new platforms when you need to is
> yet another reason to prefer free software.  Despite becoming freer
> recently, Sun Java's non-free legacy finds it pretty tightly-bound to
> x86, without a lively community who might otherwise push it in the
> 64-bit direction.

Not sure if my last post went through (mailer crashed), but I have used
both Iced Tea and GCJ, and they both work sorta.  IcedTea works with
more applets than the GNU plugin does, and eventually will work with
everything when the have all of the stubbed code replaced.

However, I, too, went back to a 32-bit system (yesterday, in fact) so
that I could use some applets that are absolutely necessary for me.
Given some time, though, the Java VM that Sun open sourced will
hopefully become usable on all platforms.

	--- Mike

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