[maemo-developers] JaLiMo

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Sebastian Mancke wrote:
> some time ago, I already announced some of our ideas about Java on
> maemo. Now we are on a state, where the basic things work (v0.1). So I
> would report it here. Everything may be obtained at: http://www.jalimo.org
> 
> We have debian packages of
> - classpath 0.93, 0.95
> - latest cacao
> - jamvm 1.4.5
> - java-gnome 4.0.2
> - rxtx 2.1-7
> 
> We have a maven packaging plugin, which is able to produce .deb packages
> including the artefact's and native libraries.
> 
> The biggest issues are:
> - jar loading problem in jamvm
> - missing swing/awt support
> - to few widgets in java-gnome
> 
> Additionally to this, we have played around with midpath, a J2ME
> implementation. Guillaume Legris from midpath wrote a gtk backend, for
> it. Currently this effort hangs, because I don't get the key events from
> the hildon/gtk libraries of the soft keyboard.

Have you disabled the automatic Hildon IM Gtk plugin loading somehow?

All normally launched Gtk applications in the device should get it
automatically:
# pid=$(pidof maemo_af_desktop|cut -d' ' -f1)
# grep hildon-im /proc/$pid/maps
41580000-41587000 r-xp 00000000 1f:04 2473
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/immodules/hildon-im-module.so


> To improve the the gui support, we try to extend java-gnome with some
> more widgets. At the other hand, we are working to get swing supported.
> for which we see two possibilities:
> 1. Direct pure java X connection backend (lib escher)
> 2. Using the gtk 2.10 from sardine


	- Eero