On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:34:03AM +0200, Francisco R. Santos wrote: > > > A custom XULRunner app is probably a bit heavyweight for what we want. I > > > would suggest that the YWMS team look into creating a lightweight > > > Firefox extension which uses some form of IPC to exchange data with the > > > running JOSM. > > > > So what we need is a firefox expert... > > > > I guess the alternative is a java native interface that invokes Gecko > > directly or something? > I already tested that way, but heavyweight components (XULRunner) don't > combine well with Swing components (JOSM). I have a very basic prototype > using a swing browser component (the Cobra library) inside JOSM displaying > an openlayers frame, but didn't have time to continue it. If anyone is > interested to continue it, I can give the sources or commit it to SVN.
Merkaartor from svn uses webkit for Y! images. This works really well : no external processes needed. This is both a technical advantage (obviously) as a legal advantage : less possibilities of Y! complaining we store and transmit their images. Maybe there is a webkit wrapper for java? cu bart _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
