Now when Chrome is 64-bits, how do I install the Java plugin?

As long as Chrome just was 32 bit, the Java plugin was not supported since Java for Mac OS X is 64 bit but now when Chrome (since version 39) is 64 bit, how do I install/enable the Java plugin?

Googling just returns old results such as

http://ift.tt/14UWQUH (that refers to this blog post http://ift.tt/1wKfT0c)

http://ift.tt/1xTP9rq (talking about Java 7, I have Java 8).