[OSM-dev] Naming streets without applet

[Nick Hill]

I have been re-sharpening my teeth on Java by modifying osmapplet to 
work with pre-1.4 Java.

I have tested my modifications with 1.3. Basic functionality  Seems to 
work OK. Need to fix the dialog box. Given that 1.3->1.4 appears to be a 
step change, I'll try to make it run with 1.1. I guess I might have 
problems with processing etc. but I'll see. That will be a lot of 
practical use given many people still use JRE 1.1. This is really a 
warm-up to help the effort to converge applet (and perhaps josm?) with 
classpath. AFAIK, none of the changes I have made actually put the 
applet closer to running with GCJ, which is a goal.

I also imagine most of these 1.1 implementations could be original 
MS-shipped (broken) VMs. I am now applying the Java programming theory I 
learned 7 years ago into practise. I both love and loathe the Java 
implementation. I am confident I have not even started hitting real 
problems.

I have also made some changes so that osmapplet works both straight from 
eclipse runtime environment and stand-alone without any non-obvious changes.

Tom Carden wrote:

> That said, Ben Fry at processing.org quoted the following stats last
> June for his zipdecode applet:
> 
> 11698 - not installed
> 7742 - 1.1
> 329 - 1.3
> 5154 - 1.4
> 7668 - 1.5
>