On 20 Mar 2003 11:28:08 +0000 Mike Hearn m.hearn@signal.qinetiq.com wrote:
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?
Sounds like they've used the MS extensions. You'll have to run the MS JRE in that case. Don't know if anyone has tried that.