On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 22:12 -0500, pvshura wrote: > I have the same problem as some other people on wine forums. We run > java + windows dlls on Windows platform and want to switch to Linux. > With respect, I think you're looking at this backwards. Your real problem is that you've got a Java program that's been locked to Windows by the inclusion of Windows-specific non-Java code, probably via JNI. The only long-term solution is to run Java natively under Linux, which means replacing the Windows-specific code by its Linux equivalent but, if your application isn't written in Java 6, you should first check whether this functionality is now included in the Java standard class library. Java is, in general, forward compatible, so programs written for an early Java version should run unchanged[*] when they are recompiled with a current version. [*] from Java 5, which introduced generics, some classes which took Object arguments, e.g. Vector, will throw compile-time warnings because they now use generics for improved compile-time type checks. Code using them will still compile and run if left unmodified. Martin
