Re: [xwt-users] xvt and jikes and shoehorn

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 02:42:34PM -0400, Nazario Irizarry wrote:

> I spent the last few days playing with XVT to see if it was of 

XWT

> potential use on a project I am working on.  I like what you guys are 
> doing and hope you guys can keep going.  A few questions:
> 
> - Where is the source for shoehorn?

It's not available. Adam has promised to publish a java version of the
shoehorn, but that explicitly does not include the ActiveX shoehorn,
which is essential for IE. If you want a personal or open source ActiveX
shoehorn, though, it should take you a few days, tops, to create one in
VB or whatnot.

> - You seem to be working hard to implement native XVT but I think a 

There's also a Java version, but it's not an applet.

> true applet based XVT would be great for many "real-world" 
> applications.  Even if the applet was limited to RPC to the source host 
> that would be ok.  Many times the reason to use applets on an intranet 
> is that the organization does not want to download things into peoples 
> desktops.  In fact the project I am working on only wants servlets - 
> hence i have been looking for thin servlet technology.

Fortunately, the sources for the engine *are* available, so you could
experiment with the Java engine to see what it'd take to make it into an
applet. If you really must use an applet, you will also want to look
into Thinlet (http://thinlet.sourceforge.net/)

> - I tried a make and discovered the attempt to build and use jikes when 
> all i wanted was the xvt.jar  (make JVM).  Why not use javac?

It does as a fallback.

> - It would be helpful for debug and development to be able to include 
> multiple .xwar files so that a target app could build on "standard" 
> widgets.

The new engine (Nitrogen) will allow you to import resource bundles such
as these.

> Also would be cool to be able to not have to package things 
> up in a .xwar at all when running locally, ie, leave the .xwt template 
> files under development in a directory and pass the directory in 
> instead of the .xwar.

You can already do that. The attached registry file makes it available
via right-click, but it's always be possible to do manually. You have to
edit the registry file before merging it.

-- 
Emiliano

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