OT Kenny Switches to Java!!!!!
- From: Ken Tilton <kennytilton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:21:02 -0400
This user has been pestering me for something she can use with her students now while I conduct my competition with the Swix fonts project to see who can miss our deadlines by the most.
One recurring theme is that Margaret keeps saying (in a polite way), Jeez, Ken, forget the new one, just get me the old one running on Win XP.
Well it occurred to me I could do that /and/ maybe have something groovy to add to my Web site as a hook for eyeballs (aside from the F# articles I will be offering, of course) if I dusted off (brace yourself) a Java applet version of the original program, something I had done seven years ago by Someone Else using (it seems) CodeWarrior CWPro 3.
I found the Java source, and the CW3 Pro environment on an old Mac, but it looks like that lastinstall I did left off Java libs.
So what do I do? Here is a chance for you Javan Gods to score brownie points with His Kennyness which can be exchanged in the future to ward off flamings and get help with loop. The options are:
0. Other ______________
1. Find the old Mac OS9 CW Pro3 CD, install, rebuild the applet, and stick it in my web site.
2. Take the Win CW Pro3 CD I found and attempt the same.
So far I am expecting to end up with an applet (ewwwww) that will not run against modern JVMs. True that latest concern?
3. Build an applet with:
a. the latest/greatest NetBeans IDE;
b. ditto Eclipse IDE;
c. ditto other IDE _____________________.
So far I still have an applet, but I might have it later today. OK, applets are horrid and deprecated and no one uses them and I do not want to do that (except I love the sound of "later today"). We continue (and hereafter the choice in #3 is understood to apply):
4. Build a Java application they will have to download and install and so maybe I also have to provide an installer? Maybe not and not the end of the world, how hard can an installer be?
5. Convert to Javascript, keep it Interwebby 2.0, avoid the applet sin. I must say the commercial model of "free, just ignore those ads" has a lot of appeal, I hear it works and I'll have a great market whatsit: teens. But I hear Javascript is nothing like Java, so I would have a big rewrite to do and "later tonight" is out the window.
Note that so far I am just talking about a quick resurrection of the old application, which was not bad and would not replace the new version unless I make about a $100m on the old one and then to hell with youse guys....
Questions? Comments?
kzo
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