Announcing Monocle, an experimental port of Glass for embedded systems

[Gerrit Grunwald]

Very Cool!!!
Will it work also on the BeagleBone Black? Hardwarewise it seems to be very close to the xM.
Also looking forward to test it on the cubox-i :)

Cheers,

Gerrit


> Am 09.01.2014 um 01:00 schrieb Daniel Blaukopf <daniel.blaukopf at oracle.com>:
> 
> 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