You know when I first looked at this I said lets do JRELite, which I see as the
future of Java, and
to do this, I'm going to take Harmony and "break it into little pieces"... ha ha
Well I stand before you humbled and broken, Harmony broke me into little
pieces, bashed my head against the wall and then drowned me ;)
I think it threw a few kicks in as well ;)
Its a humungous ambitious beyond belief undertaking and even though I've done
plenty of C in my time,
cross platform coding is something else.
Have always used an IDE, and thats my problem, I just dont know where to start
when faced with build
errors... I just cant cant get it to compile on XP even now using VS 6
Its trying but when something like this happens...
[exec] E:\Harmony\working_classlib\deploy\include\hythread.h(137) : error C
2146: syntax error : missing ')' before identifier 'millis'
in this code
extern HY_CFUNC IDATA VMCALL
hythread_sleep_interruptable PROTOTYPE ((I_64 millis, IDATA nanos));
I know its not a real syntax error and that I_64 is probably not defined...
then I follow the code back and it just becomes
a whole bunch of cross platform defines... and then I wonder where on earth the
ant script defines that.
I tried all sorts of things and... even from VS 2005 and there for some reason
its trying to compile the
linux folders and not the win32... and I think where on earth do you tell the
ant script to change that.
Or is it hiding in a mak file... I now officially give up.
How on earth does one go about bringing code back from ant driven.... to IDE
driven... that beats me.
All these dependencies... for me impossible.
So I leave you gurus to do your thing... I can see you damn good, and that you
are working
damn hard, but the size of this project and my skill levels lacking the ability
to even get it to a dev environment means
.... Harmony has kicked my butt ;)
We going try kludge JRELite from J2SE... but that really means internal company
use only... its a fun thing.
Just before I go, I want to show you something and why I believe JRELite is the
future...
This technology is something your truely invented because we dont like EJB, now
if you can just forget about that... we get flamed regularly
... the surprising thing that fell out of this was the delivery times of
applications.
With this technology applications all live on a central server, so there is no
application installed in the company, they are delivered.
And also do not get confused here... delivering application and delivering the
API as suggested in JRELIte is NOT the same thing.
BUT... it is using a similar principle, ie it does not install the JARs, it
just sucks down what the application needs.
Now if you degrade yourselves ;) and set this up on a MS system.... watch how
fast the applications are delivered.
In most cases, on a LAN... in under a second.... so you see, I wasnt totally
open... I know JRELite will work.
Its (if you can just forget about the competition with EJB)... a good way for
you to see how your JreLite would work, when you deliver API...
http://coolharbor.100free.com/index.htm
Best of luck to you.
