Java on top of SDL

Hi,

Anyone here aware of any java VMs that runs on top of SDL?

If not, anyone interested? Thoughts?

thanks!

guich

Hi,

Anyone here aware of any java VMs that runs on top of SDL?

If not, anyone interested? Thoughts?

I bet many BeOS users will be interested (since we have to wait some more
more for native implementation).
Does it mean i could run java applications in SDL (ie. Java GUI would be
inside SDL, drawn by SDL functions)? What does it need to get compiled?

THX
Regards
ahwayakchih

Anyone here aware of any java VMs that runs on top of SDL?

If not, anyone interested? Thoughts?

I personally think this is an excellent idea. The only thing better
would be getting all other OS to comply with POSIX and various other
standards, but that would be significantly more difficult…

Does it mean i could run java applications in SDL (ie. Java GUI would
be
inside SDL, drawn by SDL functions)? What does it need to get compiled?

Can you think of a reason you COULDN’T do that? He wasn’t saying there
IS one out there, he was asking if one exists. And also if anyone is
interested in creating one (I think.)

This wouldn’t be too hard to create if it can be based on a
pre-existing open source java virtual machine. Is there one? Google
knows…

Kaffe seems to be one. And it’s released under the GNU GPL. Score!
http://www.kaffe.org/

If I didn’t have to devote so much of my time to trying to make some
money and pay my rent, I’d really love to help.

Kaffe is admittedly a work in progress. Depending on what your goals
are with your idea for an SDL based JVM, you may wish to look at their
links page for other OS JVMs:
http://www.kaffe.org/links.shtml

Good luck! Keep us posted on your progress!On Jul 22, 2004, at 4:49 PM, Marcin Konicki wrote:

I personally think this is an excellent idea. The only thing better
would be getting all other OS to comply with POSIX and various other
standards, but that would be significantly more difficult…

yep, Java on SDL would be good to have (it could actually make it trylly
multiplatform thing :wink:

Can you think of a reason you COULDN’T do that? He wasn’t saying there
IS one out there, he was asking if one exists. And also if anyone is
interested in creating one (I think.)

oh, sorry. i missunderstood :frowning:

Regards
ahwayakchih

Donny Viszneki <smirk thebuicksix.com> writes:

Anyone here aware of any java VMs that runs on top of SDL?

If not, anyone interested? Thoughts?

I personally think this is an excellent idea. The only thing better
would be getting all other OS to comply with POSIX and various other
standards, but that would be significantly more difficult…

Does it mean i could run java applications in SDL (ie. Java GUI would
be
inside SDL, drawn by SDL functions)? What does it need to get compiled?

Can you think of a reason you COULDN’T do that? He wasn’t saying there
IS one out there, he was asking if one exists. And also if anyone is
interested in creating one (I think.)

This wouldn’t be too hard to create if it can be based on a
pre-existing open source java virtual machine. Is there one? Google
knows…

Kaffe seems to be one. And it’s released under the GNU GPL. Score!
http://www.kaffe.org/

If I didn’t have to devote so much of my time to trying to make some
money and pay my rent, I’d really love to help.

Help on kaffe [1] is always welcome :wink:

For a quick bit of AWT-on-SDL fun, you could take Odonata[2], which is a pure
java awt that only needs access to a framebuffer, and hook it up with SDL’s
framebuffer API via JNI.

I think that should be quite simple to get to work. I believe that you could
gradually replace bits and pieces of the Java code if necessary.

cheers,
dalibor topic

[1] Which can run JSDL, the java bindings for SDL already, according to
http://www.kaffe.org/pipermail/kaffe/2004-March/097438.html
[2] http://odonata.tangency.co.uk/ and it works on kaffe, too ;)> On Jul 22, 2004, at 4:49 PM, Marcin Konicki wrote:

I am not sure about jvm running on top of SDL but the jini interface
could provide a good solution. You could call the jvm from your native
code

Antoine

Guilherme Campos Hazan wrote:>Hi,

Anyone here aware of any java VMs that runs on top of SDL?

If not, anyone interested? Thoughts?

thanks!

guich


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