[Coco] DriveWire in Java

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 27 December 2009, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>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

Thanks Aaron.  It sounds like a moving target, and I do have some other irons 
in the fire, so I'll wait till its a little closer to a one shot install.

-- 
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