Hi Fabrizio, I've also written Java desktop apps in the past, and it seems to me that the main thing holding back a lot of Java developers from releasing on Linux is that there doesn't seem to be an easy way to create the packages needed by different distros. It would be useful to have an Ant plugin, or Maven goal that would create an RPM or deb file for your project (and hopefully upload it to the appropriate repository).
Maybe the Java app store will be the solution to dealing with the different packaging formats, and we'll be able to use webstart to distribute everywhere. Regards, Mark Fortner On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Fabrizio Giudici < [email protected]> wrote: > > Dick Wall wrote: > > Hi Fabrizio > > > > This is more like the kind of critique the space needs. I had not > > considered the continuing difficulties with OpenJDK's incompatible > > modules but it makes sense that this would be a high friction issue. I > > wonder if we might be able to get you to come on and talk about this > > on the show and what might be done? Certainly if this issue is a > > technical barrier to more java desktop applications being written on > > Linux, we should definitely shine a light on the problems. It's high > > time we talked about BlueMarine in more depth anyway, and I think with > > the angle of the issues of porting such an application to OpenJDK, it > > should be a very interesting interview. > > > > Let me know if you are interested. Thanks. > > > Interested. I wonder whether we can schedule this for mid September. I'm > leaving for holidays in August, and my holidays are just a way to work > more relaxed in the countryside :-) During August I'd like to set up the > EC2 testing on multiple virtualized Linux targets, and I think the talk > can be more interesting if we deal with the problem and how it has been > (hopefully) resolved. > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/blog > [email protected] - mobile: +39 348.150.6941 > > > > > -- Mark Fortner blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/jroller/ideafactory --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
