RE: Java port to VSTa? -- tangent

Not to stray the topic at all... but... I have considered vsta ripe with
opportunity to operate as a dedicated java workstation. My experience with
low-power old sparcs with fast framebuffers and pathetic cpu's has shaped my
conception of a vsta NC-like device (or any other platform for that
matter.).

I have adequate success using VNC to develop java from old sun4c
workstations remotely connecting to my windows and linux servers.

While I am involved presently with a startup, and can't devote much time to
learning and hacking device drivers, opengl ports, jdk ports, etc. I have
some ideas I'm putting down on paper for some future retirement date wherein
I can take up such heartfelt pursuits.

I still hold vsta in my mind as the ideal kernel platform with which to
produce low-overhead remote desktop environments, and I have seen
underwhelming CPU's pushing fantastic opengl displays with some reasonably
low-cost voodoo banshee cards ($25).

I also have yet to see a successful texture mapped window manager running
X11/vnc displays with xy + Z! layout management and realtime updates.
Meanwhile contemporary video cards are dumping gobs of heat and voltage at
insane clock rates to perform essentially what an old paradise VGA card
performs in 2d.

My idea is to form a working discussion group and contribute occasional
weekend to distributed protocol and driver development.

Coming soon to a sourceforge near you...

[...]
AARDVARK -AbstrAct Remote Display Virtual Aperture Kernel

This project will lay the groundwork for a middleware display layer to
integrate many machines onto many virtual desktops using a network and
hardware abstraction layer.

This project will also attempt to integrate VNC's RFB protocol or develop an
analog which will provide rendering primitives for a 3d panel management
environ which allows a 3d rendering of the user's 2-d mouse/keyboard/audio
interfaces.

The goal is to provide encrypted, compressed, optimized, WAN and LAN quality
remote rendering and sharing of collections of workstations and servers and
the various window interfaces of X11, Win32, and Java/2d/3d/jfc api's.

[...]resume original topic...

-----Original Message-----
From: Sandro Magi [mailto:naasking@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 3:21 PM
To: vsta@vsta.org
Subject: Re: Java port to VSTa?

>Does anybody out there have a Java SDK port to VSTa? I know the current
>one
>is burdened under Sun's licenses, but I think the older ones might have had
>source access available. Or a port of a non-Sun Java environment would be
>OK, too. If nobody has something I may go ahead and port Kaffe with Kjc,
>but my primary interest is doing stuff in Java, not dealing with the Java
>tools themselves.

If you're just interested in doing Java stuff(without license hassles), how
about GCJ then? http://gcc.gnu.org/java

It's under the GPL with the libgcc extensions(according to the FAQ). It can
compile Java source programs into Java bytecode or native machine code, so
it seems quite flexible.

I guess the only issue is completeness. I don't think it supports full AWT
yet, though that shouldn't be an issue anyway since VSTa wouldn't be able to
take advantage of it yet(would it?).

I just checked Kaffe's site and the new release boasts preliminary GCJ
integration.
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Received on Fri Feb 9 19:22:16 2001