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GCJ success story for SWT + serial port program
- From: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind dot harboe at zylin dot com>
- To: <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 17:52:54 +0100
- Subject: GCJ success story for SWT + serial port program
I've now managed to get my application running with GCJ. The road
was a bit bumpy, but it got me there in the end.
This solves a number of problems for me:
- Download size. When I zip up my program(with GCJ + SWT), it is
3.3MB. InstallAnywhere Now! package including JRE 1.4 and my app
is ~14MB download. (I tried the -Os option and my zipped app
was then 2.2MB. With -Os my app crashes though :-)
- Installation is trivial on a clean >=Win95 machine. Unzip my
package and run the app.
- Uninstall: delete the application directory. InstallAnywhere Now! had
some uninstall/reinstall issues. Now gone!
- I previously used Java Web Start and it would of course automatically
update the user to the latest version. This is great within the engineering
for daily builds and betatesters. Not the thing I want for final deployment.
My GCJ package solves this.
- My previous solution was to use InstallAnywhere Now! This free
version does not provide the capability of building my app from
Ant. GCJ does.
Go team!
Øyvind