Still no java browser plugin for Centos? I've been reading the web all night on this, getting angry. I can't find any explanation about why EPEL did have a working browser plugin, but then Centos introduced versions of those same packages that had the plugin removed. Not to mention the fact that Centos keeps the older version (b09) of java-1.6.0, and yet yum seems to think it is a newer version.
Java support is indeed problematic as I pointed out in a recent thread on this list (subject "Recent Java OpenJDK RPMs").
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Regarding your issue, currently my approach is to build the latest version locally using the IcedTea build harness: http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/RhelBuildInstructions
<snip> I agree with the original poster. Not having the java plugin is fine on servers, but for users here who *do* use it as a desktop, my choices are to either not update openjdk or install Sun's Java, which makes openjdk pointless.
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