[Coco] DriveWire in Java

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 10 December 2009, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>>I have uploaded Linux and Mac OS X versions to
>>http://aaronwolfe.com/coco/dwserver
>>
> I just tried to go there, but the view all files button simply loops back to
> itself. FF3.5.6.
>

All the work on the Java DriveWire server has been moved into the
sourceforge project's CVS repository.  You can find this here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/drivewireserver/

Although there are no binaries available at the moment, you can check
out the source and build a working jar for most any platform.  You'll
also need RXTX native libraries for the platform you'd like to run on.
 There are binaries for over 30 platforms and you can build from
source on just about anything (I built the libraries for a Linksys
NSLU2 recently).  Files for RXTX are here:
http://rxtx.qbang.org/wiki/index.php/Download

It's a bit of work to get things together right now, but the version
of DW in cvs is quite functional and supports disks, virtual serial
ports, and some client side stuff like an OS-9 wget utility and ftp
client.  To use these you'll also need the latest version of NitrOS-9,
which I believe means building from that project's CVS as well.

Jim has done a lot of work on the web interface and packaging
everything into an easy to use form, and I think we'll have simple,
one file, click and go stuff ready very soon.  Right now it takes some
time and an adventurous spirit.  I'm happy to help with any specific
questions or issues that come up if you want to give it a shot.

-Aaron

>>These are not as tested as the Windows version, but I have booted
>>NitrOS-9 using both of them.  The GUI definitely doesn't look as nice
>>as on the Windows version, but I've found there are differences even
>>running on Win XP vs Windows 7. It looks like I'm going to have to
>>learn more about relative component alignments and avoid any absolute
>>positioning.
>>
>>-Aaron
>>
>>On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Boisy G. Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:
>>> Aaron,
>>>
>>> I was just wondering today where you were on this.  I'm ready to give
>>> this a spin, so as soon as you have the OS X Java version going, please
>>> let me know.
>>>
>>> Boisy
>>>
>>> On Dec 9, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>>>> I've put a working version of a new DriveWire server, written in Java,
>>>> at http://aaronwolfe.com/coco
>>>>
>>>> The zip file there *should* just work for any Windows platform that
>>>> has a JRE installed, but I'm hoping some of you guys might have time
>>>> to try it, as I have only one Windows machine here to test on.   The
>>>> idea is to unzip the file and double click on dwserver.jar...  might
>>>> work :)
>>>>
>>>> Next will be click and run versions for OS X and Linux.  The serial
>>>> library I've used supports about 30 platforms altogether, and I've
>>>> designed the server so that the GUI is optional.  This is in hopes of
>>>> running the DW server on mobile devices or other small things that
>>>> support Java.
>>>>
>>>> Features added include the ability to write protect disks, saving and
>>>> loading entire sets of disks at a time (this I really like) and a
>>>> fancy log viewer thing.
>>>> Right now only drives and rtc work.  Printing, virtual serial and
>>>> networking are not far off.  I believe the implementation is true and
>>>> complete in following the DW 3.0 specification for the drives portion.
>>>> It's probably just in my head but it feels faster than the delphi
>>>> windows version somehow.  booting os9 is very quick.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, if anyone wants to try it out I'd be glad to have some
>>>> feedback and bug reports.
>>>> -Aaron
>>>>
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