[OSM-dev] OSM Applet

[SteveC]

* @ 11/10/06 01:05:39 PM nickblack1 at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've taking a look at the applet source code, and was hoping I could
> get a couple of tips from anyone who has worked on it, or anyone who
> has worked on applets before.
> 
> Using Eclipse as an IDE, there are some immediate problems.  For
> example, when running the applet within eclipse,  there are problems
> associated with Applets use of classes like:
> 
> org.apache.commons.httpclient.UsernamePasswordCredentials
> 
> that interact with apache, and classes like, JSObject that talk to java script.
> 
> I can get it running in a pretty hacky way - At the moment I am
> changing variables like userName, to "myusername" to test the app.  Is
> this a sensible way to test and debug?  It seems ok for looking at

no, see runappllet.sh

> some aspects of the applet, but what happens when I need to look at
> the connection to apache - is there some form of emulator/plugin for
> eclipse (or another IDE) that can deal with these connections?

don't know

> I'd be interested to hear how anyone has gone about running the applet
> for development - even if the answer is "i dont use an IDE" - in this

you guessed it :-)

> case, how do you log errors, or replicate step-into's, break points
> etc?  I genreally prefer working in vim to Eclipse or other IDEs, but
> debugging a java program seems a lot more complex than degbugging
> ruby?

Syetem.out.println();'s everywhere or the processing provided equiv.

Erm the other thing is to make sure ant is building it...

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/