Eugen, Fantastic insight - I cant wait to work that into a blogpost :)
Lau On 17 Mar., 15:56, Eugen Dück <eu...@dueck.org> wrote: > 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/f0c69735c... > ), 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 athttp://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
