jre 1.5 to work with mozilla-firefox [SOLVED]

[oracleofmist]

ok i setup for the jdk and jre 1.5.0.05 which you have to add to /etc/portage/package.keywords
i installed both of them
and then ran:

env-update && source /etc/profile
JAVA_HOME=/opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0.05

and /etc/profile.env reflects the changes

however when i try to run a java applet in firefox it says i need the plugin. Any ideas? I do not want to use blackdown java because it does not support 1.5 thanks in advance
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[yabbadabbadont]

There are two USE flags that you probably need to enable, browserplugin, and nsplugin. I don't know if they are used by the 1.5 version of the Sun ebuilds, but it's something to try. Basically you have to have symlinks to the java plugins so that Firefox will find them. You could manually create these links. Read the java plugin guide on the Firefox pluins website for the names of the specific files to which you need to link.

EDIT: I think this is the information you need to do it manually. http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Java

[oracleofmist]

*checking it out now
thanks...i've been wanting to use 1.5 for sometime but i could never figure it out how to get the system to use it.
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[oracleofmist]

thanks..for the help..it works wonderfully!