I just confirmed on a fresh 11.10 VM that this also affects openjdk-7-jdk.
With a fresh 11.10 installation, sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk resulted in /usr/lib/jvm/.java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64.jinfo with the following final line:
Even though icedtea7-plugin isn't working in 11.10, when it does work, this line will need to read "mozilla-javaplugin.so" instead of "-javaplugin.so":
I just confirmed on a fresh 11.10 VM that this also affects openjdk-7-jdk.
With a fresh 11.10 installation, sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk resulted in /usr/lib/ jvm/.java- 1.7.0-openjdk- amd64.jinfo with the following final line:
plugin -javaplugin.so /usr/lib/ jvm/java- 7-openjdk- amd64/jre/ lib/amd64/ IcedTeaPlugin. so
Even though icedtea7-plugin isn't working in 11.10, when it does work, this line will need to read "mozilla- javaplugin. so" instead of "-javaplugin.so":
plugin mozilla- javaplugin. so /usr/lib/ jvm/java- 7-openjdk- amd64/jre/ lib/amd64/ IcedTeaPlugin. so