Java Widows vs. Linux

[James McDonald]

Collins wrote:

>Recently I've launched on a new career - Real Estate. Most of the Real Estate applications are web-based with java, so crafty devil that I am, I thought why not try the applications on linux? Well, the applications almost work but not quite.
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>It's a big joke that Java has been touted as write once, run anywhere. Does anyone know anything about the flavor of Java that is used with Windows and IE? My laptop uses Blackdown with Firefox.
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>The symptoms are:
>1. The initial login and password screens work ok.
>2. The screen with selection buttons works fine.
>3. The next lower level screens have a number of pull-down data selection boxes (the ones with arrows at the right end) to setup search parameters. All of them look squirrely (not enough room for the contents), and many of them do not work (nothing pulls down).
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>I wonder if it would help to convert to the Sun version of Java?
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>Any Java heavies lurking out there?
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>Anyone familiar with running Java on "the Mark of the Beast"?
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Sounds like the problem I had with my java based internet banking 
application the input fields rendered fine on Windows and the contents 
was within the bounds of the text field but on linux the text within the 
input fields seemed too big and off centre. I tried to fix this by 
editing /usr/java_xxxx/lib/font.properties and although I could dictate 
the fonts to change I couldn't seem to get the alignment of the text 
within the widgets to display correctly ....

It's seem that the people who are codign the java apps aren't testing on 
linux and therefore are specifying font's and alignments that don't 
work.....

I tried to throw this to the jpackage list and although they suggested 
editing font.properties (which I did rather inexpertly) I couldn't fix 
it....