On 20 Mar 2003 11:28:08 +0000 Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.