JFX on Chrome OS?

[Richard Bair]

I only know Scott Violet who used to be on the Swing team. He went to Google to work on chrome 5 or 6 years ago, I don't know if he's on Chrome OS at all. Does anybody else have contacts?

Richard

On Jan 7, 2013, at 2:06 PM, Daniel Zwolenski <zonski at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you guys have contacts at Google that you can hit up for information (or more) on this? Maybe they'd like the idea of Java on their Chrome OS and could be encouraged to support a community effort to build this.
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> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com> wrote:
> I should clarify -- if we can run a VM we have a chance of success. There is very little likelihood we'd do an official port in the near future though (I would put Metro at a higher priority personally) although we would certainly host a port on OpenJFX.
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> Richard
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> On Jan 7, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com> wrote:
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> > Ya that's what I was wondering, whether they support NaCL on this or not. If there is a JVM, then even if the only "windowing" APIs we have are DOM, then I think there is a chance of success. If we can't even run the JVM, then I think we aren't going to be suitable for the device.
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> > Richard
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> > On Jan 7, 2013, at 1:52 PM, Daniel Zwolenski <zonski at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> Information on this seems light on but it would seem logical for them to align this with their Native Client work (if they haven't already done so). Could a JVM be ported to this (could also mean some web deployment options for chrome users, which is interesting)?
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> >>  https://developers.google.com/native-client/overview
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> >>  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7850886/google-chrome-os-and-nativeclient-code
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> >>  https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/native-client-discuss/mPk7GpYQ1No
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> >> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com> wrote:
> >> The real question is, can it run a JVM? Is there a way to run native code on it?
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> >> Richard
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> >> On Jan 2, 2013, at 7:59 PM, Daniel Zwolenski <zonski at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>> Similar to Pedro's query about JFX running on Windows 8 and Windows RT
> >>> ("Metro Apps"). I'd be interested to know if it's possible to run JFX on
> >>> Chrome OS, and if not whether there's plans to support this platform?
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> >>> http://hothardware.com/News/Samsung-Chromebook-Now-Top-Selling-Laptop-on-Amazon/
> >>> http://hothardware.com/Reviews/Samsung-Series-5-Chromebook-Review/
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> >>> I realise it's a 'web' OS but it is also a business platform that you can
> >>> see getting a fair bit of traction, so I'm curious as to whether this would
> >>> be in or out in terms of Oracle's notion of "desktop".
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> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Dan
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