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?
What version of Java does the app require?
I wonder if perhaps some older Sun JREs run better on Wine than hotspot does. I haven't tried any, but who knows, it might be worth trying. - Dan
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