IBM RSA-II "virtual drive" feature does not work with OpenJDK

[Martin T]

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Mario Torre
<neugens.limasoftware at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2017-05-08 13:45 GMT+02:00 dalibor topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com>:
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> we don't provide OpenJDK binaries in Linux distributions.
>>
>> I'd suggest reporting it to the provider of your binaries directly (Debian
>> in this case), as we don't provide a browser plugin implementation, either.
>> Alternatively, you may want to give the distro-pkg-dev mailing list a try,
>> where the developers of the IcedTea-Web plugin and/or Debian packages may be
>> found.
>>
>> cheers,
>> dalibor topic
>
> This is probably something to report to IBM first, I suspect some use
> of some weird hidden internal code. Jigsaw is long overdue...
>
> Cheers,
> Mario
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Mario,

when I start the applet, then it downloads libibmxrdisk.so.1.0.3
binary which I guess is a native library(Java Native Interface) for
Linux operating system:

# file /root/IBM/10.10.10.65/libibmxrdisk.so.1.0.3
/root/IBM/10.10.10.65/libibmxrdisk.so.1.0.3: ELF 32-bit LSB shared
object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, not
stripped
#
# strings /root/IBM/10.10.10.65/libibmxrdisk.so.1.0.3  | grep
GetSupportedDevices
Java_VirtualDrive_PassThroughCommand_GetSupportedDevices
GetSupportedDevices
Java_VirtualDrive_PassThroughCommand_GetSupportedDevices
#

I also guess that this is provided by IBM and it's probably broken?
Under Windows operating system it seems to download a dll file
according to Java Console:

ClientInterface::downloadLib: downloaded C:\Documents and
Settings\user\IBM\10.10.10.65\remotedrive3d.dll in 1 attempts.


So I guess either the libibmxrdisk.so.1.0.3 is broken or my Linux
version is not compatible with this native library..?


thanks,
Martin