No Sound in Java Applets

Question

I recently installed Arch, switching from Ubuntu,and so far pretty much everything is going as expected.  The one issue I have at the moment is a lack of any sound whatsoever in Java applets.  Sound works in all other contexts, including flash, perfectly.  I am using the sun java implementation, and alsa as my sound server.  Any suggestions as to fixes, or even simply where to look to find fixes, would be greatly appreciated.  A decent bit of searching on my part revealed fixes for similar problems (ie, conflicting sound with other programs) and solutions that were specific to gnome, etc.  Thanks to everyone in advance.

Answer 1

I should probably make a wiki article (or ad to the Java wiki article) about this, since it seems to come up quite often (especially on Ubuntu forums, actually). The only good solution I've found is to use Pulseaudio, and rename the java executable to java.bin, and make a script called java in the same folder, and put this in the script:
#!/bin/sh
padsp /opt/java/jre/bin/java.bin "$@"
By the way, the path to the java executable is /opt/java/jre/bin/ I've tried using the same method with plain ALSA by using aoss, and it works sorta, but it causes random crashes of Java, so that's a no go, have to use Pulse.