All, Developing in clojure is a lot of fun, at least it was for me and a project of mine - except for one thing: Deploying the app as Java Web Start app, that took me a bit of time to figure out, and not only because Java Web Start is broken in debian squeeze (for a workaround, see bugs.debian.org/560056 ).
Java Web Start has been discussed in this group some time ago ( http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/f0c69735c5a9bd03/ ), and the proposed solution at that time contained one Java class that did some static initialization (to propagate the necessary permissions to clojure's own classloader) and then went on to call RT to load a clj file, after fiddling around with PushBackReaders and so forth. I would like to stay away from RT, as it can change, and I don't want to depend on RT staying the way it is. Now it turns out that Web Start is actually pretty easy if you just AOT your whole app and gen-class your main entry point. That way you don't need any Java code. My clj file that contains the entry point starts like this: (ns kanshiki.swing (:gen-class)) Then I compile the app and create the jar file: mkdir classes java -cp clojure.jar:clojure-contrib-slim.jar:classes:. clojure.main - e "(compile 'kanshiki.swing)" (cd classes; jar cf ../kanshiki-boom.jar *) jarsigner kanshiki-boom.jar And the jnlp contains these tags to make it work: ... <resources> <j2se version="1.6*"/> <jar href="clojure.jar"/> <jar href="kanshiki-boom.jar" main="true"/> </resources> <application-desc main-class="kanshiki.swing"/> ... The complete jnlp can be found at http://dueck.org/kanshiki-boom/ . I plan to introduce and document this beta-grade app soon, but if there's any Japanese learner out there interested in or in need of Kanji handwriting recognition, check it out, but please hold back with any bug reports etc. until I have introduced it. Only one quick note: Kanjis you click will automatically be copied to the clipboard, so if you use it together with a kanji dictionary that can search the clipboard like kiten (yes, that's the KDE kanji dictionary with the huuuuge memory leak, the other day it grew to 6GB before I killed it), it is actually useful to look up kanjis or words. Oh, and did I mention lately that clojure is pure fun? Thanks again Rich! You've done (and are still doing) a terrific job! Eugen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
