The main problem with that approach is that such an API (the new JavaFX scene graph) does not exist in Java. It was written in JavaFX Script, a separate language, but they plan on porting it to pure Java APIs during the next year. So there would be at least a year before there's even an API spec nailed down from which you could create a Cocoa port.
I think creating a native integration with Mac OS is going to be hard enough without trying to track a moving target that has zero installation at this moment in time. Rob On Oct 26, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Josh McDonald wrote: > What if the new JFX scene graph was ported to Cocoa, could an AWT > implementation be built atop that? It'd probably mean a smaller mac-specific > port assuming the non-Java portions of the new stack are mainly just > interfacing with OpenGL? > > On 27 October 2010 08:38, Rob Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > A project this big needs full-time technical leadership. Without it, there's > little chance of everyone's little contribution amounting to much useful > code. But with technical leadership, work can be planned and allocated to > all available resources. I don't have the time, nor the specific experience > to be in a lead position on this project, but I can, and fully intend, to > contribute. > > So it's not just that one guy is getting paid to do this full time; it's that > this one full time guy can probably help direct the efforts of say 4-7 > non-paid contributors. You repeat this with a few more people working full > time, suddenly you've got a formidable software team. > > Rob > > On Oct 26, 2010, at 3:26 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: > > > > > > > 2010/10/26 Emmanuel Puybaret <[email protected]> > > > I am pretty comfortable with the fact that it's not a scam, but come on: > > > does he really expect to receive random anonymous donations that will add > > > up to $50,000? > > > > > > That part seems ridiculous to me, or maybe just extraordinarily naïve. > > > > As we say in French, "La chance sourit aux audacieux" :-) > > > > I would argue that what you are doing is not exactly audacieux. Audacieux > > would be for you to do the port and then present it to the world and expect > > to get paid :-) > > > > I just try my chance, and stop dreaming that others will do the job. > > It would be naïve to do it for free, and I couldn't afford it anyway. > > By the way, I'm sure it won't cost $1,000,000. > > > > Probably because you are vastly underestimating the amount of effort > > involved and also not factoring in all the non-straight-coding aspect of it. > > > > Good luck anyway. > > > > -- > > Cédric > > > -- > "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." > > Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald > - [email protected] > - http://twitter.com/sophistifunk > - http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ -- 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.
