Re: [Freerdp-devel] Java client

2012-09-05 Thread Eldar Yakupov
Hi Marc-André, >Having experience with JNI bindings for Java, I can say making Java >bindings to the FreeRDP libraries would require quite a lot more work. >Pinvoke does not require having "glue layer" code on the native side, even >though it can be used. JNI bindings, on the other hand, definitely

Re: [Freerdp-devel] Java client

2012-09-05 Thread Marc-André Moreau
Alex, You have to evaluate requirements with regards to their possible value. Yes, having a no-installation client is definitely of great value, but if it means implementing an RDP client fully in Java or C# without reusing any of the existing native code I think it's definitely not worth it. The

Re: [Freerdp-devel] Java client

2012-09-05 Thread Marc-André Moreau
Hi, Given your requirements of not having to install anything, there's really not many options available. The only true way of getting a "no installation RDP client" is to have it all run within the web browser, not requiring any plugins. This is what FreeRDP-WebConnect does. If it doesn't work on

Re: [Freerdp-devel] Java client

2012-09-05 Thread Huihong Luo
Bligh wrote: From: Alex Bligh Subject: Re: [Freerdp-devel] Java client To: "Huihong Luo" , freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: "Alex Bligh" Date: Wednesday, September 5, 2012, 3:14 PM --On 5 September 2012 15:02:26 -0700 Huihong Luo wrote: > A pure java client w

Re: [Freerdp-devel] Java client

2012-09-05 Thread Marc-André Moreau
; > Is it pure C#? or contains native DLLs that C# calls into? > > Do you use lots of DllImport in C# code? If not, translate C# to java > should be very straight forward. > > - huihong > > --- On *Wed, 9/5/12, Marc-André Moreau *wrote: > > > From: Marc-André M

Re: [Freerdp-devel] Java client

2012-09-05 Thread Alex Bligh
--On 5 September 2012 15:02:26 -0700 Huihong Luo wrote: > A pure java client with same features as FreeRDP will be a huge > undertaking, any particular reason why a java client is needed? FreeRDP > uses ARM NEON or Intel MMX optimizations for performance, all of these > will be lost with pure j

Re: [Freerdp-devel] Java client

2012-09-05 Thread Huihong Luo
oreau Subject: Re: [Freerdp-devel] Java client To: "Huihong Luo" Cc: freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, "Alex Bligh" Date: Wednesday, September 5, 2012, 3:08 PM Hi, Is Java a hard requirement? I have C# bindings written for a large portion of FreeRDP, you can definitely u

Re: [Freerdp-devel] Java client

2012-09-05 Thread Marc-André Moreau
st with pure java client, besides the efforts. Since each major > platforms will have a native client, I don't see obvious reason for a java > client. > a C# client might make more sense, since Windows Mobile requires that. > > --- On Tue, 9/4/12, Alex Bligh wrote: > > From:

Re: [Freerdp-devel] Java client

2012-09-05 Thread Huihong Luo
have a native client, I don't see obvious reason for a java client. a C# client might make more sense, since Windows Mobile requires that. --- On Tue, 9/4/12, Alex Bligh wrote: From: Alex Bligh Subject: [Freerdp-devel] Java client To: freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tu

[Freerdp-devel] Java client

2012-09-04 Thread Alex Bligh
We are using freerdp to connect to Windows Server 2012 servers and it works great. We would like to produce a similarly up to date Java RDP client, and open source it, ideally as part of the freerdp project, but otherwise as a separate project. We believe there are no open source Java RDP clients