JRE for Firefox

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

ons, 16.02.2005 kl. 05.41 skrev Sean:
> On Tue, February 15, 2005 10:30 pm, Rodd Clarkson said:
> > I'm a little confused about all this so please be gentle.
> >
> > I'm looking for a JRE to use as a plugin for Firefox.  In the past I
> > would have just hooked into the jre pluggin supplied with Sun's Java,
> > but since I'm testing the current fedora 4 development and it seems that
> > FC4 intends to do without the need for Sun's Java (I could be wrong)
> > could someone tell me what package I'm supposed to install to get a JRE
> > for firefox (and any other steps I might need to perform).
> >
> 
> Hi Rodd,
> 
> You'll still need to install a Java Runtime for Firefox, and the process
> is the same as usual.   The GNU compiler has improved to a point where
> many java programs can be compiled and run without needing a proprietary
> runtime, and that is likely the chatter you've been hearing.   However,
> it's not yet a general replacement for the proprietary JRE's.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sean
> 

But will there be any conflict if you have 2 JRE's - Sun's and gcj? Or
are gcj just there for "fedora supplied" Java desktop apps?