>> 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"). <snip> > 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. mark