[pulseaudio-discuss] Java and pulseaudio

[John Stanley]

Hi all,
I hope this is the appropriate place for this question.. Anyway, I just 
installed pulseaudio on a linux system (my own build, similar to 
LFS/BLFS with XFCE 4.4.2 and a 2.6.23.9 kernel).  I've got a few rough 
edges to work out, but pulseaudio works well with VLC, MPlayer, and 
Firefox (no problems with concurrent sound output).  However, I simply 
cannot get it to work with Java.  Java (jdk6u7) appears to hold output 
audio devices exclusively so that no other apps can be run concurrently. 
By the way, this does not happen with Java under KDE using ARts, so 
apparently the KDE folks have a work-around. This appears to be a JAVA 
bug , and has supposedly been fixed in jdk7 b20, however, I installed 
jdk7 b32, and found that the problem remains. Is anybody aware of a 
work-around for this (short of waiting on Sun)?

For the pulseaudio installation, I'm using pulseaudio-0.9.11, with the 
package defaults for /etc/pulse/*, and my /etc/asound.conf is real simple:

pcm.pulse {
    type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
    type pulse
}

Would appreciate any help, pointers, etc., and thanks much for your  time.
John