Comments on: MiniBuilder and JNotify JNI – could use some help

By: kollagen

kollagen — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:41:08 +0000

FlexBuilder 3 alpha still works, but none of the new fx4 stuff is part of it. There is still a long-pending vote on the Adobe Bugs site as for who wants FB on Linux. If you have an interest, definitely create an account to here.

By: Liam

Liam — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:32:12 +0000

Hey Victor.

I can’t find your email on the site?

my email’s attached to this comment if you could fire a quick email…

Liam

By: Victor

Victor — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:05:31 +0000

That looks good. I scent a winner

By: IanT

IanT — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:49:52 +0000

Well, if you want it running in a servlet and want a small server, there’s always:
http://tjws.sourceforge.net/

But yeah, I think it makes lots of sense to run it as a servlet; then it can be run offline or online as you see fit.

(I know Jetty’s only 2.4Mb – just thinking that download sizes add up!)

By: Victor

Victor — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:08:00 +0000

How cool, tiny

Though Jetty is only 2.4Mb. If I make it run as a servlet, the code can run under any standard Java server.

What do you think?

By: IanT

IanT — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:44:33 +0000

(Obviously with tweaks to adapt it to call various compilation actions!)

By: IanT

IanT — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:44:06 +0000

Web server is a good idea…

Does it need to be particularly advanced? What about something simple like this? (i.e. considerably smaller than Jetty!)

http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/Tiny-Application/HttpServer.htm

By: Victor

Victor — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:26:34 +0000

first of all, i’m still in doubt whether to waste the time for extending the file-system-event based as3-java link, or just switch to something else.

possible solutions i can see now:
– low level tcp, Merapi or something along those lines
– http based communication. this second one, although implies a bit more complexity, would be preferable because it will also serve the next step in development: remote compilation service. this would allow MiniBuilder run both in AIR and web pages with almost the same code behind.

I’m thinking about using a small servlet container (jetty?) that will be part of MBCompiler. Alternatively, users could opt for a web provided compilation server and not install MBCompiler at all. I’ll check if Flex SDK can be fit into a Google APP.

Or just wait for AIR 2.0

@Liam
Design, yes great! Do something an mail me. At any level, from raster image mockup to skin programming under aswing.

@Dimitri
Great! I just found out that my laptop can fit a Ubuntu 64 bit. I am still in doubt whether to stick with 32 bit. The speed gain is not much.
Can you contribute the 64bit so? Just mail it to me or something.

victor dot dramba on google mail.

By: Dimitri

Dimitri — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:06:12 +0000

Hi Victor,

I have run across your project and tried to run it on 64-bit Linux… without success. The supplied libjnotify.so is 32-bit, and thus, Java complains about ELFCLASS32 upon starting the compilation server. I compiled libjnotify.so from sources (encountering a build regression in the kernel headers [1]), and then, it worked.
It would be nice if you would supply a native 64-bit version.

[1] http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0808.3/0732.html

By: Liam

Liam — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:09:17 +0000

Hey Victor – first off – incredible project you’ve got on the go here…
As a Mac user I’m desperate for the work around as I’d love to try it out. Although I noticed in your post above you’re looking for someone to help out with the UI design? – Well, I would LOVE to help out in that department! As much as I do a lot of development in as3, I’m nowhere near up to your level, but I can design a mean UI.

Get in touch!

Liam