Regarding Java, I have used and developed Java apps on hardware that is not much more powerful than the XO-1. Given a choice between Java and Flash I'd rather have people developing in Java. While 55 meg is a lot on the XO-1 on SoaS or the XO 1.5 it isn't that bad. I think the real question here is do we support creating "pure Java" Activities, and what benefit there would be to doing that. Much of the Java software we'd like to support might be in the form of applets. We could certainly allow Browse to support applets without providing a pure Java Activity framework. We could also distribute such applets in the form of Activities that use hulahop, like Social Calc and the Karma apps do.
I've programmed in Java for many years and I'd have to say that Java IDEs seem to be more powerful than Eric but I prefer Python as a language and a development platform. My proposal would be to treat Java as a less objectionable alternative to Flash. You would not be able to write a first class Activity in it, but you could create a non-collaborating applet run by hulahop and distribute it on ASLO. James Simmons > Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:26:30 +0000 > From: Aleksey Lim <[email protected]> > Subject: [IAEP] [POLL] Non Sugar Platform activities in Activity > Library > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: <20100228022630.gb17...@antilopa-gnu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
