How hard would it be to support Java?

[Christoph]

Dan Kegel schrieb:
> Quite a few apps use embedded JVM's.
> Case in point: SPSS, one of the apps requested by Munich.

WTF?
There is a JVM for Linux available.
To my mind contact the manufacture of your software and explain to them
that Java is platform independent ...

> 
> So I played around a bit with Sun's latest 1.5 JRE.
> It can run trivial apps, so I closed
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2953
> (ok, maybe that was premature, since the bug was for Sun's 1.4 JRE).
> 
> But it can't run applets; first, it runs into a nasty glx error,
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4143
> 
> Once you patch your way past that, it complains about not finding
> a native method, see
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4873
> 
> And it doesn't show up in Firefox's about:plugins by default, see
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4860
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on these, especially bug 4143?
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 
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