On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, Yasha Karant wrote:

> We have bioinformatics visualization applications that require a java plugin 
> enabled web browser.   The only plugin from Oracle/Sun Java that works is:
>
> URL:  http://java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp
> Java Downloads for Linux
> Recommended Version 7 Update 17
>
> 	Linux RPM filesize: 54.7 MB 	Instructions 	After installing 
> Java, you will need to enable Java in your browser.
> 	Linux filesize: 45.9 MB 	Instructions
> 	Linux x64 * filesize: 44.6 MB 	Instructions
> 	Linux x64 RPM * filesize: 52.8 MB 	Instructions32-bit version 
> for Java applet and Java Web Start suppor
> * Please use the 32-bit version for Java applet and Java Web Start support.
>
> End quote from java.com

I think that is out of date

On my SL6.3 laptop, With the *64*bit 7u17 jdk rpm from oracle (
   http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
follow the DOWNLOAD link and agree hthe licence)
and 64 bit firefox-17.0.3
  http://www.javatester.org/version.html says I'm running 
Jave Version: 1.7.0_17 from Oracle Corporation.

You may have to disable Iced-Tea in firefox/addons/plugins, but you
I didn't need to restart firefox to switch between the oracle and openjdk
java plugins.

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