[tlug] Java Console Confusion

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

Can someone please set me straight on Java terms, packages, and 
locations?  I think I am having nomenclature problems ... in addition to 
a few others ...

I need to use the MOJ's Touki Database regularly and it requires Java 
(JRE) support.  It has never liked any of the Java choices I have 
offered it in any *Buntu flavor I have tried.  I have been doing my 
lookups in WIN (English XP with Japanese IME on Virtualbox), printing to 
.pdf and dragging the file to the Linux side to send or process.

I have this, perhaps silly, idea that I can/should/could/ought to be 
able to eliminate at least one step in this process *somehow*.

In XP Firefox (currently 3.6.2) I have several Java consoles -- from 6.0 
to 6.12 -- that load as add-ons.

In Xubuntu Firefox (currently 3.5.8) I have none.

Firefox add-on page tells me that support for Java Console has been 
stopped with JRE 1.6.  When I try to D/L + install an earlier version I 
am told that my version of Firefox is too old.

libjline-java is installed in Xubuntu.

As a result, Touki Database tells me that I have Java running in both 
Xubuntu Firefox and XP Firefox.  However, only XP Firefox produces 
results.

So ...

Do I have an OS issue or a Firefox issue?

Is there some fix for this that would allow JRE to run properly in Xubuntu?

Or, should I blow this off and keep doing things the long way around?

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CL