[maemo-developers] Jalimo and Java 6

[From: Robert Schuster]

Hi Lisa,

Lisa Stotz schrieb:
> Is there a way to get the N810 to run Java 1.6 edition?
At the moment there is no working Java VM with Java 6 compatible class
library.
Although having one is in Jalimo's (and my) interest I can only spend
little time on
getting this done.

The work that will make it possible is being done in the public
Subversion repository[0] of Jalimo.

If no one steps up to help in this effort, this work is not likely to be
completed before February 2009. I am doing this in my spare time and
want to have something working for the next FOSDEM in Brussels.

> I have some code that is written in Java 1.6 and my goal is to have it
> run on the tablet, but the code uses some of the great features that are
> only in Java 1.6 (like GroupLayout).  I would rather not rewrite code
> that already exists, but I can't seem to figure out how to get a later
> version of Java on the tablet.
AFAIK GroupLayout works together with AWT and Swing. Those toolkits are
not in a good shape to support a touchscreen-only device (ie. no mouse
pointer). Expect problems in this area when porting an existing
application to the tablet.

Regards
Robert

[0] - http://evolvis.org/scm/?group_id=11

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