Announcing Monocle, an experimental port of Glass for embedded systems

[Scott Palmer]

What's the situation on Raspberry Pi?  I got one for Christmas and made a
quick memory game for my daughter with JavaFX - works great.
Should I bother trying or do you already know it doesn't work?

Scott

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Daniel Blaukopf
<daniel.blaukopf at oracle.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A few of us in the JavaFX team have been trying over the holidays to put
> together an embedded implementation of Glass that has minimal native code.
> When developing the existing embedded Glass implementation, Lens, we had
> noticed that there were a few problems were were running into again and
> again:
>  - We were duplicating data structures between C and Java.
>  - Logic was split between C and Java, making it hard to debug effectively.
>  - In many cases we needed to make expensive JNI up-calls from C to Java.
>  - Each additional platform we added support for increased the complexity
> of the system and frequently required similar changes in Glass and Prism.
>  - Any level of pluggability in C needs a lot of setup to do, both for the
> platform porting layer (on which we did make some progress) and the ability
> to use custom input handlers (on which we didn’t)
>
> Monocle is an attempt to resolve these problems. It’s in a very basic
> state right now, but it is enough to play with. There is a description of
> the components and how to run up at
> https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/OpenJFX/Monocle.
>
> Monocle is currently buildable for all platforms, but on desktop platforms
> it only works in headless mode. It can render on BeagleBoard xM, Freescale
> i.MX6 and in embedded emulation mode on Linux/x86.
>
> Your feedback is welcome, on this alias and in JIRA.
>
> Daniel