Re: [Openjnlp-devel] UPDATED: Please help, I want to submit a patch for OpenJNLP

[Chad W. <li...@th...>]

Hi,

On the OSX stuff - can you do all that code via reflection and avoid the 
compile-time dependency?  Ugly, but might work.  Jakarta Commons 
Beanutils has some libs which make reflection less (although still) 
painful...

-- Chad

Grant Wood <gr...@na...> wrote:
> Chad,
> 
> I haven't looked at OpenJNLP in quite awhile, so I apologize for not  
> responding quicker. I spoke briefly with Kherr this afternoon, and  
> there are some issues we should look at.
> 
> First off, to build OpenJNLP use the build file in devel/targets/
> 	cd build/targets
> 	ant build -or- ant compile
> 
> second,  I added your patch to Gestalt.java to check for WindowsXP.  
> Gestalt.java should be at revision 1.3 now unless I did something  
> wrong.  I ran into one other bug, which was an odd double semicolon in  
> IconFactory that the 1.4 compiler didn't like which is now fixed...  
> which brings me to the final bigger problem:
> 
> The big barrier to compiling on windows is the MacOSAppHandler class,  
> which imports the OSX specific MRJ classes.  There may be others, but I  
> think tat is the one that complains the most.  Obviously, this needs to  
> be addressed, possibly with some trickery in the build.xml file.  The  
> easiest hack, really, is to delete it and then edit the classes that  
> use it... (openjnlp.desktop.MasterFrame comes to mind) until we get  
> another solution in place using Ant.  Ah, the joys of integrating java  
> into various environments.
> 
> 
> Grant