Thank you Brad... yes, check out this "new kid on the block". I'll be keen to to hear your straight opinion if you'd have any. Especially
since none of Android dev. challenge panel/judges
has bothered to check out Dr.i.n.e. (no
hits on the tech. overview page link
that I've provided along with my ADC entry).
Well, that's why now I'm looking for someone
with the right background and caliber to
peer review this nutty idea;)
My apologies to/. moderators, who promptly hid the original post
from the public view with an Off-topic score.
I am well aware this is a wrong place for any such announcements,
but ideas of Dr.i.n.e. are very much on topic
if you would read the post closer
1) even with HTML-5 and Ajax, HTTP is still not an ideal protocol for delivering applications
2) by now, web browsers has got huge momentum
reckoning with those two facts-of-life, new frameworks
are being developed to solve the online vs. offline and
other dilemmas (GWT, Gears, OpenLaszlo, Silverlight, Air, etc)
Now, I would like to add one more (OSS) project to this growing list:
Based on the ideas of Wine project, this one uses java+xml
APIs of Google's Android to give developers a single framework
for developing mobile/web/desktop-convergent applications.
Basically, every line of java code that you write gets automatically
"ported" to the web, desktop and also to Android phones, without requiring
source code modifications/branching. It's a mammoth undertaking, but I
believe in it (so far has been my "labour of live"). I also
see that project needs some initial publicity to get off the ground...
You can check out Dr.i.n.e. project's concepts and tech. overview here:
Slashdot Mirror
My apologies to /. moderators, who promptly hid the original post
from the public view with an Off-topic score.
I am well aware this is a wrong place for any such announcements,
but ideas of Dr.i.n.e. are very much on topic
if you would read the post closer
first, a few observations I very much agree with:
1) even with HTML-5 and Ajax, HTTP is still not an ideal protocol for delivering applications
2) by now, web browsers has got huge momentum
reckoning with those two facts-of-life, new frameworks are being developed to solve the online vs. offline and other dilemmas (GWT, Gears, OpenLaszlo, Silverlight, Air, etc)
Now, I would like to add one more (OSS) project to this growing list:
Dr.i.n.e. - project:
http://code.google.com/p/drine/
Based on the ideas of Wine project, this one uses java+xml APIs of Google's Android to give developers a single framework for developing mobile/web/desktop-convergent applications.
Basically, every line of java code that you write gets automatically "ported" to the web, desktop and also to Android phones, without requiring source code modifications/branching. It's a mammoth undertaking, but I believe in it (so far has been my "labour of live"). I also see that project needs some initial publicity to get off the ground...
You can check out Dr.i.n.e. project's concepts and tech. overview here:
http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/drp/
cheers,
Aleksandras G.