JRE Detection in Internet Explorer

Hi All,
How can I detect the JRE version installed using Internet Explorer?. What if the the JRE is not installed,and so detect the default VM in Internet Explorer ?. I went though many articles, and looks like there is no standard way?. For Firefox navigator.mimeTypes() can solve it but for Internet Explorer it does not work as I see,and which has been given in articles too. So finally what's the best solution to detect Java in Internet Explorer? Is it VBScript OR using applet which returns version/vendor?.
Regards
Nitin

Read up on the JavaScript discussed here: [http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/deployment_advice.html#deplToolkit]

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