With RHEL 6.1 there is a package called "icedtea-web"
This not only have javaws, but it has "IcedTeaPlugin", which I am 
assuming is equal to openjdk's plugin.

So, right now, no there isn't a java plugin in SL6.  But it should be in 
there soon.

Troy

On 05/20/2011 04:07 PM, Robert E. Blair wrote:
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> Acck!  I just noticed the changelog.  I gather javaws was removed for
> some reason (I guess yum is telling me that an old version has javaws).
>   Am I doomed to go begging back to oracle?
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> On 05/20/2011 04:04 PM, Robert E. Blair wrote:
>> Taking a lead from a comment about not needing the oracle jdk for java
>> services and noticing that once again the jdk needs an update, I removed
>> the oracle jdk.  I installed java-1.6.0-openjdk (after much futsing
>> since the oracle jdk seemed to have broken things).  Alas without javaws
>> EVO will not work and yet yum told me this package has javaws:
>>
>> yum whatprovides indicates (among other stuff):
>>> 1:java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.21.b17.el6.x86_64 : OpenJDK Runtime Environment
>>> Repo        : sl
>>> Matched from:
>>> Filename    : /usr/share/pixmaps/javaws.png
>>> Filename    : /usr/share/applications/javaws.desktop
>>> Filename    : /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0.x86_64/jre/bin/javaws
>>
>> after installing this package an "ls
>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0.x86_64/jre/bin"
>> indicates
>> java     orbd     policytool  rmiregistry  tnameserv
>> keytool  pack200  rmid        servertool   unpack200
>>
>> no javaws!
>> rpm --verify java-1.6.0-openjdk
>> doesn't indicate any missing files
>>
>> rpm -ql java-1.6.0-openjdk|grep javaws
>> yields nothing.
>>
>> What am I missing here?
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