The openJDK has come along and is able to run Autoplot now. We never supported it with the applet before, and we should make sure it will work now since it should work fine. It doesn't work properly on my Ubuntu 10.04 out of the box, and we should get this to work.
When I run
http://autoplot.org:8080/hudson/job/autoplot-jar-applet/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/autoplot/AutoplotApplet/dist/AutoplotAppletAurora.html ,
the status of my firefox 3.6.15 is "error: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializer". I see "Applet initialized" briefly before.