Quoting "Michael A. Peters" <mpeters mac com>:
Which is interesting - since Sun ships x86_64 boxes
It's worse. Blackdown Java folks (http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java-linux-contact.html) actually compiled the plugin in some of their versions, but those are not always up to date and the plugin is not very stable. This looks nice:
-------------------[person box mozilla]$ file libjavaplugin_oji.so libjavaplugin_oji.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), stripped
-------------------So, it's not that it is impossible to compile this thing. All that is required is more testing to make it more stable. And the only way to test is to ship. But Sun won't do that. What are they waiting for? Who knows...
I had a few encounters with Sun Java support engineers (in the days I used Java as a programming language for web apps) and my experience was that no amount of valid points was ever sufficient to make those people fix _any_ bugs. This one has been sitting there for almost _3_ years!
-- Bojan