[CoLoCo] Java on Chrome OS

[Jim Hutchinson]

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.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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