A Zotero Problem running on openoffice, fixed

I fixed a Problem when using Zotero in openoffice.

The Error information is :
“Firefox could not load the component required to communicate with your word processor.”

Here is my software settings:

• Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit
• Firefox 3.6.3
• Zotero 2.0.2
• Zotero integral for Openoffice 3.07
• Openoffice 3.1

Zotero official support categorizes the problem as “OpenOffice component loading error”. They said this error is usually caused by a non-functioning Java installation. (For more, see this link: http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_troubleshooting )

It took me a lot of time to solve this. To my experience, the solution could be 3 steps in general.

1. Install Java 6.

To check weather Java for firefox works, you can do by the link:(http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp) . For Firefox 3.6, It need Java 6 Update 10 and above. Reason see below:
http://www.java.com/en/downaload/faq/firefox_newplugin.xml

2.Enable java in firefox.

Usually the way is just simply click “enable Java” in firefox preference. However I didn’t find the “Enable Java” on Edit>Preference>Content. The reason is that “Enable Java” checkbox has been removed from the Content panel. And we can enable and disable Java using the Add-ons window. But the wired thing is that I can’t find Java item in Plugins in Add-ons window. So, I have to go to step 3.

3.Manual Installation and Registration of Java Plugin for Linux

The key is to Create a symbolic link to the Java Plugin libnpjp2.so file in the Firefox plugins directory.
the command is :
cd (Firefox)/plugins
ln -s (JRE)/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so
Since I’m using 64-bit ubuntu , so the command should be:

cd (Firefox)/plugins
ln -s (JRE)/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so

For detail see this link: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/install/jre/manual-plugin-install-linux.html

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