java / pulseaudio question

[R Kimber]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:15:13 -0700
Knute Johnson wrote:

> Richard:
> 
> It works fine on my Oracle (used to be Sun) JDK 7 installations under XP 
> and Linux and on JDK 6 under XP (didn't have a 6 on Linux to try)  So 
> maybe it will work if you put a Sun JDK on your system.  When I look at 
> my Linux installation I have ALSA and that's what Java is using I think. 
>   So it could still be something to do with PulseAudio but I would 
> certainly try loading a Sun JDK to test it.  I'm including some Java 
> code that I use to look at audio files to see if they will play under
> Java.

Knute:

Many thanks for your help on this. I removed the openjdk and installed the
Sun/Oracle JDK 7 and it is now working fine.  It's a pity that Ubuntu
doesn't use this version.  I've also discovered something else that doesn't
work with openjdk but is fine with Sun/Oracle.

- Richard.
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