Will Chrome OS support Java applets?

Question

As far as I know there's some kind of Linux in the Chrome OS foundations and Java is already supported there, so I don't see a technical problem. The question is whether or not they want people to run applets at all.

I would certainly appreciate it...

Answer 1

I have a CR-48 with Chrome OS and it does not support applets currently. No idea if that will change.

Personally, I think it would be nice to have applet support. The CR-48 supports the proprietary flash plugin, it should support the open source java plugin as well.

Answer 2

Flow (a Haxxeh build of Chromium OS) currently supports Java. It's now simply an update.

Answer 3

No, there will be no stock support for Java within ChromeOS.

No, you should assume that there will be no JRE in stock Chromium OS builds, or in Google Chrome OS.

http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-os-discuss/browse_thread/thread/e11e5a6002f9f553/6219243e55fff96c?lnk=gst&q=java#6219243e55fff96c

Phrase is by Chris Masone. Having an @chromium.org-Mail-Adress, he should know what he says.

He also states, that

the community is more than welcome to adapt the chromium os code as they desire. If folks want to get java working on Chromium OS, please go ahead.

imho: Yes, somewhere in the future, there will be someone porting an (maybe open source) JDK/JRE to comply with Chrome OS, as there are already Java DK/RE for Linux nowadays. There are even screenshots available today which show java code being executed within Chrome.

edit: according to blog post with images as proof: Yes, mostly sure! Well - still not out of the box, but after probably modifying the repositoriy list, a

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre 

should do it, as it's ubuntu based. If we don't trust this news, the chance is still very high that google forks another distribution and customizes that one only on the surface, so that we can apt-get/urpmi/...

edit2: according to http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/how-tos-and-troubleshooting/add-a-new-package/package-management, you can build your own packages and install them. There is a sample for emacs, so java should be no problem.

Answer 4

Yes.

It won't be shipped out of the box, but since there is a Linux version, and GCOS is basically Linux, then it will run as any other plugin.

It is hard to speculate about it, but basically the answer is it will because it does on Linux already.

Now; Will it be transparent and run the just by installing the Sun's version ( or any other version ) with out changes? I bet it won't. The Java community will have to work on that version but I'm pretty sure that eventually you'll be able to run Applets on ChromeOS.

Answer 5

Yes See here. There's also screenshots showing Java working in Chrome.

It has to do with a release of Java that supports WebKit browsers, and therefore supports Chrome as well.

Answer 6

I think Java applets would be popular with Chrome OS actually; the OS's philosophy is centered on a web browser being the main function or medium for everything. AFAIK Java is open source (or almost there) and supported on Linux & the Chrome browser. So yes.