First Look at Running a Java App on the OLPC XO Laptop
Installing a JRE
This
page says that Sun's regular x86 Linux JRE can be installed.
I think the non-RPM self-extracting file option is the easiest:
su
cd /usr/local
mkdir java
cd java
chmod a+x jre-1_5_0_11-linux-i586.bin
./jre-1_5_0_11-linux-i586.bin
Test Your Install
Check the JVM version from Terminal:
java -version
Run a Test App
JBook is a good test application.
Download the latest version. Then start it from Terminal:
java -jar jbook.jar
It should appear on screen. However, it currently shows up as a gray
screen. Hitting tab a couple of times and then the spacebar will
bring up a dialog, which looks correct, but the main book display
doesn't appear.
Update: If you press the "Rotate" button (on the left
side of the screen), the app will resize to fill the screen and you
can see it normally. JBook runs nicely full-screen in bright sunlight.
AWT applications like OrderedLife show up correctly, albeit
at their default resolution. The rotate trick makes them show up
full-screen as well. The default font is somewhat small, however.
Sugarizing a Java GUI -- A Quick Dusting
A well-behaved application on the XO Laptop interacts with the Sugar
environment to support icon display in the ring, suspend and restart,
and more. The act of taking a normal X11 app (like any Java AWT or
Swing GUI) and making it a good citizen in the Sugar environment is
known as Sugarizing.
The easiest way to Sugarize an existing application appears to be to
write a small python app that uses the Sugar library, and have that
app launch the existing application. So for example with JBook the
python app would run "java -jar jbook.jar". The python app is
responsible for taking Sugar messages and forwarding them to the Java
app.
It should be possible with minimal effort to make a Python Activity
which can run any GUI Java app with a tiny configuration change. The
Java application would only be minimally Sugarized, but at least it
would appear in the "Ring" and honor shutdown requests.
Very Sweet Java -- The Future of Pure Java Sugar Integration
There is no reason the functionality of the python Sugar library
couldn't be made available as a Java class library. Then a Java
application would be Sugarized by making use of the Java library, no
Python needed. This level of integration would make a Java app be a
full-fledged Sugar citizen and indistinguishable from all of the Sugar
apps shipping bundled with the XO.
Other XO information
Some other sites with XO information:
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