That would be great! Please post the link here when you're done. On Mar 18, 5:15 pm, LauJensen <lau.jen...@bestinclass.dk> wrote: > Eugen, > > Fantastic insight - I cant wait to work that into a blogpost :) > > Lau > > On 17 Mar., 15:56, Eugen Dück <eu...@dueck.org> wrote: > > > All, > > > Developing in clojure is a lot of fun, at least it was for me and a > > project of mine - except for one thing: Deploying the app as Java Web > > Start app, that took me a bit of time to figure out, and not only > > because Java Web Start is broken in debian squeeze (for a workaround, > > see bugs.debian.org/560056 ). > > > Java Web Start has been discussed in this group some time ago > > (http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/f0c69735c... > > ), and the proposed solution at that time contained one Java class > > that did some static initialization (to propagate the necessary > > permissions to clojure's own classloader) and then went on to call RT > > to load a clj file, after fiddling around with PushBackReaders and so > > forth. > > > I would like to stay away from RT, as it can change, and I don't want > > to depend on RT staying the way it is. Now it turns out that Web Start > > is actually pretty easy if you just AOT your whole app and gen-class > > your main entry point. That way you don't need any Java code. > > > My clj file that contains the entry point starts like this: > > > (ns kanshiki.swing > > (:gen-class)) > > > Then I compile the app and create the jar file: > > mkdir classes > > java -cp clojure.jar:clojure-contrib-slim.jar:classes:. clojure.main - > > e "(compile 'kanshiki.swing)" > > (cd classes; jar cf ../kanshiki-boom.jar *) > > jarsigner kanshiki-boom.jar > > > And the jnlp contains these tags to make it work: > > ... > > <resources> > > <j2se version="1.6*"/> > > <jar href="clojure.jar"/> > > <jar href="kanshiki-boom.jar" main="true"/> > > </resources> > > <application-desc main-class="kanshiki.swing"/> > > ... > > > The complete jnlp can be found athttp://dueck.org/kanshiki-boom/. > > > I plan to introduce and document this beta-grade app soon, but if > > there's any Japanese learner out there interested in or in need of > > Kanji handwriting recognition, check it out, but please hold back with > > any bug reports etc. until I have introduced it. > > > Only one quick note: Kanjis you click will automatically be copied to > > the clipboard, so if you use it together with a kanji dictionary that > > can search the clipboard like kiten (yes, that's the KDE kanji > > dictionary with the huuuuge memory leak, the other day it grew to 6GB > > before I killed it), it is actually useful to look up kanjis or words. > > > Oh, and did I mention lately that clojure is pure fun? Thanks again > > Rich! You've done (and are still doing) a terrific job! > > > Eugen
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