Hello,

I want to preface this message by ranting a little about java.
Someone came into my office today, and in the course of our
conversation, they asked me what java was.  I explained it, and they
asked why people use java...  And I tried to explain it, but I had to
admit that I can't really understand why people use it... Let alone
why I have to use a java SSL-VPN application!

So anyway, I have been trying and trying to get Sun Java 6 working on
SL.  The command line version seems to work well enough for jgnash,
which is the only thing I've used it for so far.  But the Firefox
plugin... not quite.  Or rather, not at all.

Yum says I have gcj 1.4.2 and java-1.5.0-sun-compat.noarch installed.
I downloaded the java 6 jre from java.com as a binary installer, which
unpacks to an rpm and installed it.

I've created symlinks to the sun plugin in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins,
mucked with about:config java:java_plugin_library_name.

I really need the Sun JRE, but they don't make it easy, do they?  Any
suggestions?