[Openstreetmap] Re: Java desktop osm client

[Immanuel Scholz]

Hi,

Am Freitag, den 30.09.2005, 23:55 +0200 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen:
> And I would find it very convenient if the Java client worked out of
> the box with one of the Java implementations in Debian. :)

In all free Java implementations I have seen so far, GNU Classpath is
used as library.

Unfortunatly, the current implementation status of GNU Classpath is not
nearly enough to run any Java 1.5 Swing-Programm other than "Hello
World". So I would have to restrict myself to a compatible subset of
Swing and Java language features. I consider that too harmful to the
style and cleariness of the source code.
Even if the library problem solved, the java compilers out there (e.g.
gcj) does not support the new Java 1.5 syntax, so you would have to
download and use SUN's stuff to compile the code to .class files.


But free Java implementation currently have a very fast development
progress and I will keep a sharp eye on this, so maybe it runs before it
is usable anyway ;-).



On the other hand, if you are using Windows, you have usually other
license concerns than SUN's Java license. ;-)

And if you use Linux, you may have a closer look at Nick's osm-editor
which is already usable and runs under Linux. (Well, I bet you already
noticed osm-editor :)

Ciao, Imi.