Jamiga bounty?

It has been some time now since last bounty. I myself would really like to see Jamiga finished. I would suggest a bounty to get Joakim more motivated. If you havent followed his progress you can do it here.
Jamiga

Would you support such bounty to get java?

sounds like a good bounty to me.

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Yes.

Hans

Sounds like a good idea.

I just treated myself a chocolate bar and a coffee, you can read all about it at the Jamiga2 blog: Coffee and bounty.

The bounty for Java milestone 1 is hereby open: JAVA - (Milestone 1) JVM for AmigaOS.

(Sorry for cross-posting.)

The picture you chose is nice. It should be used on the Amigabounty website

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It was actually only a snapshot of my desk at the time. Although the chocolate bar wasn't entirely chosen at random. :)

@joakim

Can this java be used on internet banks? they relay on java afaik.

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In milestone 3, Java applet support is planned. And I believe that should be enough for those bank that use applets. I don't know if the banks put up some other restriction, but I really don't think so -- it should be standard Java. Someone whose bank uses a Java applet could try it with JamVM and GNU Classpath under Linux in order to know for certain (or if someone could point me to a link where I can test browser capability, I could test it on my JamVM installation). When we get to milestone 3, I will try to gather as much information as possible in order to define exactly what is expected work, and what might not work.

But for milestone 1, no. No applets, no GUI, no graphics.

And, just for the record, when milestone 1 is done, milestone 2 and 3 should be more straight forward.

@jaokim

Applets have another problem - they expect to be run within a web browser. I'm not sure if any of our modern web browsers have working plugin capability, given that there aren't any plugins available for them.

I remember a Java (partly) project at work years ago, where we used an applet runner instead, to avoid the requirement for a browser.

Are applet runners still an option today? (I'm not into Java myself, as you can maybe tell ).

And if so, could we use that with JAmiga - eventually?

Best regards,

Niels

Ah, yes, that's problem number 2. Being able to run it from a browser. I naïvely thought of iBrowse, remembering it should be possible to create an NPAPI library and make it work. But iBrowse of course has other limitations... I dont know about OWB, but Timberwolf surely must have NPAPI possibilities?

I've also run applets in an applet runner, when I actually managed to put a poor old web applet under automated tests for a bank. (The applet wasn't used for login, but rather file upload.) So, I guess the applet could be made to run, but what it does regarding security I'm not really sure of.

I do however think that with a NPAPI compatible browser we'd be good to go. Even if the Java applet perhaps would open up in a separate window. But, I really don't know for sure.