Fwd: Whats up with WebJDK

[Akash Shetye]

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From: Akash Shetye <shetyeakash at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:49 AM
Subject: Re: Whats up with WebJDK
To: Roman Kennke <roman at kennke.org>


Thanks Roman, we will need a lot of help. Currently I am going through
Caciocavallo's code and trying to get a bigger picture (not there yet :P).
To develop a new Redirected filesystem I gather that, we will need to
reimplement the java.io's File, Writer abstract class as well as reader
abstract class and probably more. I am thinking of using HTML5's File API
for reading files and HTML5's FileSystem API for writing down files to the
client system, however the writing happens to a virtual sandboxed file
system, so wouldn't have the flexibility of actually writing things down
unless we use ActiveX, Java Applets etc... Tell me what you think about it.

Also is you do have the time to do so, please tell me the relevant sections
of  OpenJDK that will need to be altered, hard to find tutorials on such a
subject. Any links or pointers are welcome. Thank you so much Roman.


On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Roman Kennke <roman at kennke.org> wrote:

> Hi Akash,
>
> > Hey all on the dev team sorry for being off topic,
>
> It's not off-topic! Infact, it is right *on* topic here :-)
>
> >  I tried Caciocavallo not long ago and found it amazing. I was
> > interested in knowing how the development for the WebJDK is going on
> > because I had planned to pursue a similar effort myself, later
> > stumbling across caciocavallo. Instead of reinventing the wheel I
> > wanted to know if I along with a few friends could help with any of
> > the WebJDK's subsystems like filesystem etc.
>
> WebJDK basically is Cacio-Web plus a few ideas. A while ago I started
> work on a filesystem prototype, but it never went very far. From there
> it basically stalled due to a lack of resources.
>
> > The goal of doing this is to come up with a bachelor thesis/project.
> > We want to do something that has a positive impact and is opensource.
> > Having about four months of nothingness in our schedules, it would be
> > great if we could contribute substantially on the WebJDK thing. I
> > think the exercise will prove to be a great learning experience for us
> > above all.
>
> Absolutely! You would be very welcome in this effort. Just let us know
> if you need any help or more information to get started.
>
> Cheers,
> Roman
>
>
>
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