Hi all,
finally I set a portable version of Skyjump for my pen drive. Of coarse SkyJump
is already portable (with its own embedded JRE 1.5.0). My idea was to have only
one JRE on my pen used buy all the softwares (OpenJUMP, Kosmo, GvSIG and
SkyJUMP).
The structure of the folders of my "pen GIS station" is: JRE, OpenJUMP,
SKyJUMP. etc
To make SkyJUMP portable I did these steps:
1) Skyjump depends to SKYJUMP.exe (java platform library) with the same name of
the launche but embedded on SKYJUMP embedded Java machine (1.5.0, I think). I
moved SKYJUMP.exe to the SKYJUMP/SKYJUMP main folder
2) I opened SKYJUMP.INI with a notepad (in SKYJUMP/SKYJUMP/BIN folder) and
added this line, after "-vn" line: "..\Skyjump.exe
These are the results:
a) Skyjump works fine and points the JRE embedded on my pendrive (JRE1.6.05)
b) If there is no JRE on my pendrive (with its folder at the same level of the
Skyjump one), Skyjump points to the default JRE of my computer (JRE 1.6.10)
c) b) happens wherever I move the software on my computer.
Of coarse somebody can say, as we say in Italian, that "I discover the hot
water" - but it was not easy to understand for a non-developer, like me (except
some DOS).
My question to Larry are conceptual:
Why to embed a JRE machine on Skyjump? It seems to work fine even without (of
coarse I did not test its functions to see if there are problems)
I am quite impress how fast Skyjump works. My alterate version opens even in
1/3 of time compared to OpenJUMP and seems to require less memory. What are
really the difference between the two softwares?
I also noted that using Skyjump workbench-properties.xml file in OpenJUMP, it
is possible to open some plugins, like Jithon console, even if they not work.
My impression is that the two softwares are more close than it seems to be. And
I think this happens also thanks to Larry's efforts to move/improve tools fron
Skyjump to OJ.
Regards and Thanks Larry!
Peppe
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