I tried this quite a while ago, and had all manner of problems with threading. Now lots of work has happened since then, and it is possible that it now works, but it does make extensive use of the threading APIs. Maybe getting the JVM to work would be a good test suite for those APIs (if we knew which it used).
David
Mike Hearn <m.hearn@signal.qi To: wine-devel@winehq.com netiq.com> cc: Sent by: Subject: Java in wine? wine-devel-admin@w inehq.com
20/03/2003 11:28
Hi,
Perhaps a bit offtopic, but my company has asked me to try and get a desktop java app we use/are developing here running under Linux. You'd think, being written in Java, that it'd just be a case of installing the JVM and running it. Unfortunately, because Java is rather poor at desktop apps, they've used a load of windows extensions via JNI to try and make it integrate better.
That means, the only solution is probably to run a JVM under Wine (short of rewriting all the native code, which they don't want to do). Now, I tried the Sun JRE, and it wasn't happy. I expect HotSpot does some wierd stuff under the covers. So I'm wondering if anybody has walked this road before, and if there are any other JVMs that might work better under Wine?
thanks -mike
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