Writing Gnome toolbar applet using java?

[Joe Desbonnet]

I've got some server monitoring software written in Java. I'd like to
be able to add an icon to the Gnome toolbar for alerts (like the
Redhat Network Alert Notification Tool).

I presume this would involve libgnome-java (?). Has anyone written a
gnome applet in Java before?

Thanks,
Joe.

[Anthony Green]

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 15:09 +0000, Joe Desbonnet wrote:
> I've got some server monitoring software written in Java. I'd like to
> be able to add an icon to the Gnome toolbar for alerts (like the
> Redhat Network Alert Notification Tool).
>
> I presume this would involve libgnome-java (?). Has anyone written a
> gnome applet in Java before?

I don't think it's possible with java-gnome yet, but you can do this
with SWT using the Tray class.

AG

[Robert "kebernet" Cooper]

You can also do it with the Sun JDIC library.

On 1/26/06, Anthony Green  wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 15:09 +0000, Joe Desbonnet wrote:
> > I've got some server monitoring software written in Java. I'd like to
> > be able to add an icon to the Gnome toolbar for alerts (like the
> > Redhat Network Alert Notification Tool).
> >
> > I presume this would involve libgnome-java (?). Has anyone written a
> > gnome applet in Java before?
>
> I don't think it's possible with java-gnome yet, but you can do this
> with SWT using the Tray class.
>
> AG
>
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[Anthony Green]

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 11:31 -0500, Robert "kebernet" Cooper wrote:
> You can also do it with the Sun JDIC library.

Thanks for the pointer.  I had never really looked at this before, but I
must say I'm surprised and impressed.  Nice LGPL desktop integration
classes from Sun.  Somebody should package this for FE.

I've been using java-gnome for some desktop integration tasks recently
(like launching a browser from RSSOwl).  This has the nice advantage
that it's small and special-purpose.

AG

[Anthony Green]

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 08:46 -0800, Anthony Green wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 11:31 -0500, Robert "kebernet" Cooper wrote:
> > You can also do it with the Sun JDIC library.
>
> Thanks for the pointer.  I had never really looked at this before, but I
> must say I'm surprised and impressed.  Nice LGPL desktop integration
> classes from Sun.

I take it back - they use some secret class called
sun.awt.EmbeddedFrame.  Boo!

AG

[Ismael Juma]

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 08:46 -0800, Anthony Green wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 11:31 -0500, Robert "kebernet" Cooper wrote:
> > You can also do it with the Sun JDIC library.
>
> Thanks for the pointer.  I had never really looked at this before, but

I
> must say I'm surprised and impressed.  Nice LGPL desktop integration
> classes from Sun.  Somebody should package this for FE.

The majority of the SwingLabs[1] projects are licensed under the LGPL.
Many useful projects there for FE. :)

Regards,
Ismael

[1] https://swinglabs.dev.java.net/

[Fernando Lozano]

Hi Ismael,
> > > You can also do it with the Sun JDIC library.
> >
> > Nice LGPL desktop integration
> > classes from Sun.  Somebody should package this for FE.
>
> The majority of the SwingLabs[1] projects are licensed under the LGPL.
> Many useful projects there for FE. :)

And most of them uses internal implementation classes (com.sun.*) from 
Swing and AWT, so they aren't usefull with free software JVMs :-(

[]s, Fernando Lozano

[Ismael Juma]

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 15:26 -0200, Fernando Lozano wrote:
> And most of them uses internal implementation classes (com.sun.*) from 
> Swing and AWT, so they aren't usefull with free software JVMs :-(

I wasn't aware of that. I use swingx and as far as I know, it doesn't
use any com.sun.* classes.

Regards,
Ismael

[Fernando Lozano]

Hi Ismael,
> > And most of them uses internal implementation classes (com.sun.*) from 
> > Swing and AWT, so they aren't usefull with free software JVMs :-(
>
> I wasn't aware of that. I use swingx and as far as I know, it doesn't
> use any com.sun.* classes.

They are not exposed in the API (so your programs don't use Sun internal 
classes) but teir implementations uses. Actually it would be very 
difficult to do some things (like sytem tray icons) without tapping into 
the AWT implementaion.

[]s, Fernando Lozano

[Ismael Juma]

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 15:56 -0200, Fernando Lozano wrote:
> They are not exposed in the API (so your programs don't use Sun internal 
> classes) but teir implementations uses. Actually it would be very 
> difficult to do some things (like sytem tray icons) without tapping into 
> the AWT implementaion.

[...]

I assume you're talking about the other projects from SwingLabs. I
haven't used them, so I don't know. swingx, however, as I said in my
comment does not use com.sun.* classes (unless they manage to do it
without having it in their source code ;)).

Regards,
Ismael

[Phil Muldoon]

We did it on Frysk using Java-Gnome. I've cc'd the two engineers that
were responsible for it, as they could surely explain it better than I.

Regards

Phil Muldoon

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 15:09 +0000, Joe Desbonnet wrote:
> I've got some server monitoring software written in Java. I'd like to
> be able to add an icon to the Gnome toolbar for alerts (like the
> Redhat Network Alert Notification Tool).
>
> I presume this would involve libgnome-java (?). Has anyone written a
> gnome applet in Java before?
>
> Thanks,
> Joe.
>
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