The other issues mentioned in Bug #300096 should be small. Free Java alternatives made good progress in the last year. Eclipse is in main. Many good runtimes are in main. Of course users are free to use proprietary but we done force them to do.
I tried to run it with gcj and it failed with these messages.
=================================1================================= java.lang.NullPointerException at com.sun.electric.tool.user.ui.ExplorerTree.initDND
(ExplorerTree.java:547) at com.sun.electric.tool.user.ui.ExplorerTree.<init>(ExplorerTree.java:167) at com.sun.electric.tool.user.ui.ExplorerTree.CreateExplorerTree(ExplorerTree.java:152) at com.sun.electric.tool.user.ui.WindowFrame.buildWindowStructure
(WindowFrame.java:249) at com.sun.electric.tool.user.ui.WindowFrame.finishWindowFrameInformation(WindowFrame.java:154) at com.sun.electric.tool.user.ui.WindowFrame.createEditWindow(WindowFrame.java:126) at
com.sun.electric.tool.user.ui.TopLevel.InitializeWindows(TopLevel.java:195) at com.sun.electric.Main$InitDatabase$1.run(Main.java:423) at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(libgcj.so.7) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent
(libgcj.so.7) at com.sun.electric.Main$EventProcessor.dispatchEvent(Main.java:462) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(libgcj.so.7) java.lang.NullPointerException at java.awt.Component.getLocationOnScreen
(libgcj.so.7) at gnu.java.awt.AWTUtilities.convertPointToScreen(libgcj.so.7) at gnu.java.awt.AWTUtilities.convertPoint(libgcj.so.7) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.acquireComponentForMouseEvent(libgcj.so.7
) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.handleEvent(libgcj.so.7) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(libgcj.so.7) at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(libgcj.so.7) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent
(libgcj.so.7) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(libgcj.so.7) at com.sun.electric.Main$EventProcessor.dispatchEvent(Main.java:462) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(libgcj.so.7)
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