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I'm not in a position to specify requirements for anyone, but it would be easier for me (as a Debian user) if it could work out of the box on Debian without needing to download the Java runtime from Sun. There was a long discussion recently about the use of Java in OpenOffice. The conclusion seemed to be that developers would make sure that OpenOffice is compatible with free implementations of Java. It's been a while since I did any Java (and all work I did was based on Sun's Java...) but I imagine that if it works for OpenOffice, then it should work for FEniCS? /Anders On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 03:19:22PM -0400, tomtzigt wrote: > Kaffe: is this a real requirement? Our development systems (red-hat, suse, > windows) are all SUN run-times and are dedicated to other projects that rely > on the regular SUN distributions so if Kaffe is a requirement I am not the > guy that can deliver. > > Theo > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: fenics-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fenics-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Anders Logg > Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 3:10 PM > To: Discussion of FEniCS development > Subject: Re: [fenics-dev] Application domains > > Any contributions are welcome. Applications that sit on top of the > current libraries are particularly useful, since they will force us to > specify proper interfaces. > > My only worry about Java is that it should work with gcj/kaffe and GNU > classpath (so one doesn't have to download the java runtime from Sun > which is not available on most Linux distros). > > /Anders > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 09:03:20PM +0200, Johan Jansson wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 01:48:54PM -0400, tomtzigt wrote: > > > Would there be interest in a Java-based GUI that tries to do this for > > > Fenics. If there is interest, I can give this a try. > > > > > > Theo > > > > > > > Yes, definitely! > > > > I have started (this monday) to experiment with SWIG to try to get a > > Python interface to Ko (a multibody solid mechanics component of > > Fenics I'm developing), and it would have to make interfaces to DOLFIN > > as well (meshes, coefficient functions, etc.). If you wanted to work > > on a GUI it would be a great addition, and both of us would have to > > solve some common problems. I think you also would require a > > SWIG-generated interface to similar parts of DOLFIN/FFC. > > > > This is the first time I'm using SWIG, and I've only been coding > > Python for a few weeks, so it will take me some time before I get up > > to speed. Have you used SWIG before? It seems to be the way to go for > > this type of thing. > > > > Most of Fenics tends to be written in C++ or Python, but I don't see a > > problem using Java for the GUI. It should be straightforward to > > interface to the Python components, and something like SWIG can > > generate interfaces for Java as well as Python. > > > > Johan > > > > _______________________________________________ > > fenics-dev mailing list > > fenics-dev@xxxxxxxxxx > > http://www.fenics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fenics-dev > > > -- Anders Logg Research Assistant Professor Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago http://www.tti-c.org/logg/
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