Java in SeaMonkey
 

Howdy from elgordo33 in iced-over Central Texas - one of our rare (about every 20 years) ice storms.
intro: I was an electronics specialist for the U.S. Army. I have been around, working with, and using computers since the mid-1960's, when the military first used an IBM card-punch to send payroll data over a multi-channel teletype carrier via HF radio. That was in southeast Asia and the US terminal was in Illinois.
It ran at 74 baud (roughly 100 words per minute [base:5-character words]) - we have come along way since then.
I have been a Linux user off and on since ~ 1997. First distro was Caldera Desktop 2.0 on an i486 at 66 Mhs or less - the stone age of computing.
I got thoroughly disillusioned with Windoze about 6 years ago and have been steadily working at becoming windoze-free since. I settled on SuSE as my distro of choice (experimented with several, mostly Red Hat and the FC's thru 4) and am currently running SuSE 10.0 on a self-assembled desktop (MSI mobo, AMD Athlon 1.5 Gb, 512 Mb ram, ATI video, mobo sound, RealTek NIC, home network), and OpenSuse 10.1 on a Dell Inspiron B120 notebook.
Not a newbie, but not a guru, either - I am still learning daily. Would deem myself an intermediate level user.
Current problem - no java on Mozilla Seamonkey on desktop. Java-1.5.0 works on the FireFox browser. I am relatively certain that it needs a link to the JRE in seamonkey, but don't know where to link it.
Would appreciate any assistance that you want to give.
Thanks.

Find the pluging directory for seamonkey and create the symlink there. For firefox it is usually in /usr/lib/firefox/plugin. Seamonkey probably uses the mozilla plugin directory in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugin.

Thank you ramram29. I finally put my brain to work and arrived at the same process.
a little judicious rooting around in SuSE using root file manager turned up the files, but not where I would'v looked on my own.

a look at /etc/java/java.conf sent me to /usr/lib/jvm which finally took me back to
/etc/alternatives/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

which is the operative plugin I needed.

The seamonkey file is /usr/lib/seamonkey/plugins, and a routine symlink to the /etc/alternatives... turned on the java plugin in seamonkey, and now the live clock in www.time.gov works.

Anyone else having this problem wiht Suse 10.0 who does not know what a symlink (also called soft link) is, here's a (very) mini-HOWTO:
1. Find your plugin source (/etc/alternatives... above).
2. find your target (/usr/lib/seamonkey... above).
3. Open a terminal and become root or superuser (su - <enter> and give root password <enter>)
4. cd to the target directory.
5. Type 'ln -s /etc/alternatives/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so .' <enter> -- using your source and omitting the ears [''], and yes, the last space dot is required.

What that does is tells seamonkey to look in the etc/alternatives location for that plugin. the 'space dot' at the end tells the terminal to 'make the link here' (present directory).

Happy computing!
elgordo33

Welcome to LQ :D Because this tuned into a technical question rather than a pure intro, I have moved it to Linux-Software. Thanks for posting up your solution: so many don't....

Sorry, sir ~
The link to the intro/mewbie forum invited me to ask a question, so I did.
Since I have seen others lauded for answering their own question on here, I did that too, with a little help from my friends.
Will strive to do better in future.