[CoLoCo] Java on Chrome OS

[David Overcash]

Java Web Start - to my understanding - attempts to use the browser to
download the application to your computer and run it locally - which is
quite different from running the application in-browser.  My guess is that
it won't work because ChromeOS doesn't have any place for the application
to "install" to - and just doesn't know how to handle those intents.

FWIW - I can't get those to work in Linux either, but I'm using OpenJDK, so
that would explain quite a bit.  :)

-David

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org>wrote:

> David,
>
> Thanks for the info. I did install the lime build by hexxeh and verified
> that java works. However, the jnlp apps used on http://phet.coloYou
> probably undersrado.edu/ <http://phet.colorado.edu/> don't work even
> though the java test page loads and says java is working. According to
> Phet, they use java web start. Not sure how it's different but
> frustratingly chromium just downloads the jnlp files but can't open/run
> them.
>
> I've been googling all night. Any insights would be most welcome.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:17 PM, David Overcash <funnylookinhat at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> I can't remember if Java was in this install - but I do remember that
>> there wasn't a web page that didn't seem to work correctly...
>>
>> http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/lime.php
>>
>> It's similar to an AOSP Android build - they took the source for ChromeOS
>> and built in more hardware support and ( afaik ) some other minor features.
>>  Give it a while via USB disk?
>>
>> Hope that helps!
>>
>> -David
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org>wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I'm on the verge of getting our school to consider Chrome Netbooks of
>>> some sort - probably netbooks with "unofficial" installs but that's not
>>> decided yet. One of the main issues is that teachers rely on a number of
>>> websites that use Java such as http://phet.colorado.edu/
>>>
>>> Our one sample chrome-book does not run Java apps and I'm discovering
>>> that it's not part of the OS. I read one link that had some instructions
>>> but can't find it again. Does anyone know for certain if there is a way to
>>> get Java running on Chrome OS and how easy/hard this is? If you have a link
>>> to a solution (or better yet a build that already includes it) that would
>>> be great.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
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