I meant I use SSH for a shell session to do sysadmin types of activities. The ability to demo j is a bonus. I agree that a browser style of interface would be better to work with and demo j.
I also agree with other posters that the limitations on iPhone keyboards would make any actual development work painful and frustrating at best... - joey At 16:13 -0700 2009/07/03, Oleg Kobchenko wrote: > > From: Joey K Tuttle <[email protected]> > >> >> Following this with interest - even though I use iPod Touch instead >> of iPhone, I find lots of good/available WiFi access. I bought iSSH >> >> In general, the most attractive advantage of an SSH terminal solution >> over a browser based interface is secure access to the server. (And > >There's HTTPS, which I believe is based on the same SSL as SSH. >(Secure Socket Layer.) > >> my general preference for jconsole with its excellent session memory >> :) >> >> I do think a good/clever browser interface could be very pretty and >> useful on the iPod/iPhone - certainly the addition of cut/paste in >> iP...V3 devices provides a nice improvement. An advantage would be >> easier, more flexible, graphic display than trying to use an Xterm >> server/client interface. PDFs display very nicely on iP... devices. > >Browser would allow richer UI with controls to edit, test, re-use the >code, so that there is less typing than in console. For example, instead >of typing names 6, names_x_'' etc to browse there would be buttons or >menus to explore locales, values, and do other housekeeping tasks. > >In fact, I am thinking that maybe instead of shell interface, it would >be better to have a SmallTalk interface with Object Browser so you keep >all visual and browsable and only enter editing mode to make changes. > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
