1. Re: [OT] Win XP Activation ?
- Posted by Greg Haberek <g.haberek at comcast.net> Sep 15, 2003
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> You can, however, write cross-platform software so when John Doe comes > and says, Greg, that program you wrote, can I use it on Linux too? Or > better yet, you can say this program is cross platform and will run on > Linux as well. It's a freely available operating system. > > Maybe after a while of development like that Linux would not be such a > minority. > > Jeremy I'm actually exploring that as we speak. I've discovered a little library called "japi" (Java Application Programming Interface) It uses the Java Runtime Environment in a non-oop way, so languages like Basic, Pascal or Euphoria can access it. Best of all (in theory), a program written for Japi should work on any platform that support JRE. As long as the rest of my code stays platform-independant, or I make adjustments by calling platform() then I'll have produced a truely cross-platform app. The only downfalls right now are that the user needs JRE installed, and japi is a bit buggy, but I think that may be the fault of JRE. I'm also downloading Mandrake, which I plan on installing on another computer so I can get more in-depth with my cross-platform programming. ~Greg