[OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 8 plugin for Firefox

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 28/04/2015 22:00, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A few days ago I downloaded the latest sources of openjdk8in order to build a 32bit binary.
> The build process finished and it created the required images. Now, there is no file
>
> libnpjp2.soso there is no Java plugin for Firefox. I have also checked jdk1.8.0_31
>
> and there is no file libnpjp2.so there! Now according to the following Web page:
>
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/install/linux_plugin.html
>
> there is Java plugin for both i386 and amd64 systems! My simple question is:
> Where is the Java plugin?

I see now that you use OpenJDK, that has no browser plugin at
all. Use the Oracle Java distribution instead.
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