I've run jar files on Linux that were intended for Windows, sometimes with perfect results. Mileage will vary with the number and type of platform-specific components required (e.g. a Windows-only ...

A vender I'm working with provided a static library (.a) and two header files. I'm purely a Java guy, and we'll eventually get to a pure Java library, but in the meantime I'd like to test using ...

Starting in April, Oracle will treat JAR files signed with the MD5 hashing algorithm as if they were unsigned, which means modern releases of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) will block those ...