{"id":448,"date":"2015-03-27T13:24:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T07:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/askadmin.com\/?p=448"},"modified":"2015-04-07T12:36:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T07:06:43","slug":"install-windows-java-based-desktop-application-on-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askadmin.com\/aa\/install-windows-java-based-desktop-application-on-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Windows Java based desktop application on Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are using Mac and have some windows desktop application  which is java run time environment dependent ,you have few choices for running it on  a Macintosh .<\/p>\n<p>1 .dual boot with windows by using bootcamp.<br \/>\nYou will see good performance with this solution as the entire system resources are spared for windows operating system. Downsides of this , You must have a  licensed copy of windows OS and you must restart your computer in order to switch between Mac and windows desktops.<\/p>\n<p>2. Using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/in\/products\/fusion\" target=\"_blank\">VMware<\/a> , <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parallels.com\/products\/desktop\/\" target=\"_blank\">Parallels<\/a> desktop.<\/p>\n<p>With this solution you don&#8217;t need to restart your computer to enter windows operating system. Major disadvantage of this  is  system resources are shared between Mac and Windows as you will be running both operating systems simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>3. Install <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winehq.org\">Wine<\/a> on Mac.<br \/>\nUnlike VMware\/parallels desktop, Wine will create a compatible layer of windows environment by converting windows API calls into Linux\/free BSD POSIX calls .So running wine on Mac will save some system resources as wine itself is not a emulator. Downside of wine is , Not all applications are compatible with wine .<\/p>\n<p>If you are having some  JRE dependent windows application to run it using wine ,First install java for  windows  from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technetwork\/java\/javase\/downloads\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> . Newer  versions of JRE may not run well on Wine so  choose some older version of  JAVA from  &#8220;Previous Releases &#8211; Java Archive&#8221; page . For example choose  jre-6u25-windows-x64.exe . <\/p>\n<p>Now you can install the downloaded file in several ways  by right clicking on it and open with wine or  open wine menu &#8211;>control panel &#8212;> Add and remove programs &#8212;>Install  and navigate to downloaded file .<br \/>\nNow  install the java based windows application and choose the installed application to run .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/askadmin.com\/aa\/install-windows-java-based-desktop-application-on-mac\/wineonmac\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-450\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/askadmin.com\/aa\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wineonmac-500x132.png\" alt=\"wineonmac\" width=\"500\" height=\"132\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/askadmin.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wineonmac-500x132.png 500w, https:\/\/askadmin.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wineonmac.png 961w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had an application called VOS 3000 client   which runs on windows only . I just installed it through wine and  started using it on my MacBook Pro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are using Mac and have some windows desktop application which is java run time environment dependent ,you have few choices for running it on a Macintosh . 1 .dual boot with windows by using bootcamp. 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