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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: ID4 on July 02, 2003, 11:33:18 PM
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Sourceforge-project Java for Amiga OS 4 and 3.9 (JAmiga).
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jamiga/
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Excellent! :-D
Check all those '0's in the version number. Landmark that you know ;-)
Now, would anybody mind unpacking that file & placing the package somewhere for me to download as I don't have any of the systems on the list :-)
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Excellent!
Most Excellent!
Seriously...this is great news if they actually make it work. The previous efforts didn't do too well, as I recall.
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The Open Source way is the one to go. This can
be a slammer! But why 3.9 and not 3.5 and less?
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Nice very very nice. I hope they succed .
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being open source, this should at one point get ported to AROS and MOS... Maybe then, the first person to package Jazilla as an amiga program will get the Amizilla bounty? :-D
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How do you pronounce that? Ya-miga? :-P
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Hope it will be made :-D
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Uuuuu good!
Something is going on :-)
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Isn't 1.3.1 an old version?
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@JoNty
I think it's new enough, we are using it at work with no problems. Actually if we install newer version, it gives some problems with our internal systems.
Anyways, I hope these guys pull this trough, big thumbs up for them.
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@JoNty
Isn't 1.3.1 an old version?
Unfortunately It is, 1.4.1 is fairly standard now, and we are on the verge of 1.5 (in beta). there are some features in 1.4 that i couldnt live without, but 1.3 is a good start at least and would be much appreciated by yours truly.
And heres hoping tomcat will make an appearance on amiga, for thou rocketh...
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Yeah, we also still use 1.3.1 with our call tracking system at work. Newer versions cause it to play up. Anyway, good luck with the project.
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This sounds positive. Good news :-)
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This is promising - they actually have something to show for their work so far.
Hopefully some people will join in and help now...
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HOW TO INSTALL JAMIGA
Only a few simple steps to get this thing running:
1.) Obtain the JAmiga-package, unzip it into any folder of your choice.
2.) Go to sun's website (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/download.html) and download their JDK 1.3.1 (1.4.x should also work) for a platform of your choice (well, you should HAVE that platform...)
ATTENTION! We recommend that you chose the Windows Version. Others have NOT been tested!
3.) find the location of the rt.jar - file that's included in the JDK
4.) use jar to "unzip" it >jar xvf rt.jar (a UNZIP Utility should work as well, you may have to rename the file into rt.zip)
5.) copy the folders /java/lang, /java/io and /java/util to the same folder as the JAmiga-executable is (if you go via network you may want to zip it up again)
6.) Now JAmiga *should* work
try:
JAmiga -?
> prints some help
JAmiga HelloWorld
> Runs the HelloWorld - class (guess what it does)
JAmiga -p HelloWorld
> Produces (a lot of) debug output for the class
ENJOY !!!
:-)
I have not tried it this is just the info on installing it taken from the archive
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So has anyone attempted this? And if so, has anyone tried it under OS3.5? I'm assuming that JAmiga is dependent on something specifically in OS3.9 or greater.
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I will definately look forward to when it is up to date in, say, a week or so.
You better step on it, developers :)
Sincerely,
-Kenneth Straarup.
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Just tried it. It didn't work at first. I did a zip archive of the needed JDK 1.3.1 classes in my lame PeeCee and unarchived it at my Amiga's RAM. The problem was that some nested classes have rather long filenames (e.g. Hashtable$EmptyEnumerator.class) and unzip had to replace them with previously unarchived ones.
I opted to extract directly to my PFS3 partition and I had success (ran HelloWorld) even though some classes were still missing/replaced.
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The Open Source way is the one to go
Yes!! This is what people don't understand. Open Source is what M$ is afraid of. A skillful programer can make Open Source Software work on Amiga OS4 in a short amount of time. This makes the prospect of filling the OS4 software profile not so daunting and with in a much shorter space of time.
What do other people think?
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Open sourcing has its good and bad points. It's not the super-solution you all seem to think it is. The good things are: its free, stuff can be easily ported (in theory), and development doesn't rely on a single author.
But the bad things are that it can make too many versions of a single program, that the standard of open source code often falls FAR behind commercial stuff, and that often the code gets so mangled and bloated by different coders that it gets neigh on impossible to port. Mozilla anyone?
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OK, I used setfnsize to increase the max filenamesize of my HD partition. Be careful, once it is increased the only way to decrease or reset it to default value is reformat the partition !!!
I also tried JDK 1.4.2 classes. The included examples worked without problems. But when I tried some 1.4.x specific code though (regex) I crashed badly :-(
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Java is not open source (yet). But it's free, in a good way, not in a M$ way and it has tremendous support and upside.
Bringing Java to Amiga is not an easy task and I doubt it can happen without some serious support and changes in AmigaOS. But, if done, it could be the best thing that can happen to Amiga platform.
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Java is not open source (yet)
Well, actually, it is. You can get the source code to the J2SE on Suns java pages.
http://wwws.sun.com/software/java2/
The license is quite strict, though...
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Glenn Hisdal
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being open source, this should at one point get ported to AROS and MOS... Maybe then, the first person to package Jazilla as an amiga program will get the Amizilla bounty?
Yup, If it's open source and compiles on AmigaOS, an AROS port will be quick and simple.