Saturday, March 06, 2004

More links on continuation based web development from Java land at Steven Noels' weblog. Lots of discussion here also. 6:56:29 PM

James Strachan wants continuations in Java. Reading his weblog post and the comments on it shows a lot of desire for continuations, especially for web development.  Meanwhile those of us using Smalltalk and Scheme have these advantages already. The latter allows developing of continuation based web applications using Java by hosting the Scheme interpreter in Java. 6:50:05 PM

I've uploaded an IPKG for the Blackdown Java JDK v1.3.1 for the Zaurus. I've tested this on the pdaxrom but it should work on the Cacko X11 rom as well. You can download the ~16MB file from blackdown-jdk_1.3.1_arm.ipk. Once installed, set the JAVA_HOME directory to point to either the '/usr/local/j2re1.3.1' directory or '/mnt/card/usr/local/j2re1.3.1' if you installed it on the SD card. Also add the 'bin' subdirectory of that directory into your path. Once this is done you can run 'java', including Swing applications. The commands to change the environment were:   export JAVA_HOME=/mnt/card/usr/local/j2re1.3.1   export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin I have a problem with my SD card in that it gets corrupted when doing sustained lengthy writes to it. This caused problems installing the IPKG. As a workaround I ran a background process to force a sync during the install:   while true; do sync; sleep 1; done & I successfully ran the Java Swing Notepad example with this. 5:54:54 PM