[Gvsig_english] gvSIG and Java on Mac OS X

Mon Oct 20 13:34:02 CEST 2008

Oh great.
I cannot really see why that should happen.

Which SEXTANTE version are you running in the other
installation?

I am using this one:

https://forge.osor.eu/frs/download.php/145/sextante_gvsig-0.1.zip

Ben

Agustin Diez Castillo wrote:
> ATTENTION PLEASE!!!
> Maybe we got a problems, sextante results are not the same with your 
> bundle and with the "normal" mac installation.
> 
> El Oct 20, 2008, a las 1:12 PM, Benjamin Ducke escribió:
> 
>> OK. I have unbundled gVSIG and adapted the startup_script accordingly.
>>
>> The only issues that still need to be resolved now are:
>>
>> 1. I cannot manage to get the shell script started from within the App
>> folder. It works fine from the command line, but a double-click on
>> the App package silently fails. I have created a minimal Info.plist
>> (attched) but that does not seem to do the job. Not sure whether the
>> problem is with that or with the shell script.
> Maybe I am wrong but this works on my side, you only need to make an 
> executable command file with the path to the script (see attachement).
>>
>>
>> 2. I actually don't know whether the SoyLatte JRE runs on PowerPCs
>> and 32Bit Intel. Could someone on those platforms test, please?
> I will.
> 
>>
>>
>> 3. Minor cosmetic differences between using a system-wide JRE and
>> the bundled SoyLatte: SoyLatte does not apply transparency to the
>> UI elements. The main application menu bar also has the "X11" menu
>> instead of "gvSIG" (see attached screenshot). A more problematic thing
>> might be that there is no hardware-accelerated Swing UI with SoyLatte.
>> I do not know how badly that would affect the user experience, though.
>>
>> I have uploaded a current version of the bundle here:
>>
>> ftp://88.208.250.116/gvsig-unbundled.zip
>>
>> Please test.
>>
>> Given that it is impossible to resolve the Java situation consistently
>> on all variations of the Mac OS, I think there should be a choice for
>> users to run either the bundled SoyLatte JRE or the system-wide one
>> (particularly on OS X 10.5, as there is an "official" 1.6 JRE
>> available). This can be done easily by setting the "JAVA_VM=" variable
>> in the startup script.
>>
>> How can I reliably check for the CPU architecture on Mac OS X (without
>> having to look it up in some C header file)?
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> Mijail wrote:
>>>>
>>>> And indeed: IT WORKS (using the JAI from Apple's JDK 1.5)!
>>>>
>>> Yipee-ki-yay!! :D
>>>> GvSIG on Mac OS X 10.4 running on a bundled FreeBSD 1.6 JRE (in your
>>>> face, Apple)!
>>>>
>>>> Now, the last question, coming from a Mac ignoramus: how do I get
>>>> my shell script to execute automatically instead of the JavaStubs
>>>> launcher when the user double-clicks the gvSIG package?
>>>>
>>> In the *.app/Contents/Info.plist you'll find an entry pointing to the 
>>> actual file to be executed (which is supposed to be inside 
>>> *.app/Contents/MacOS). And that file can be a shell script.
>>> Now, you don't need the complex bundle structure we have been using 
>>> for gvSIG <2. You only need the inner *.app bundle; the "outer" one 
>>> is only to check for and install JAI-ImageIO if needed. Which is not 
>>> your case because you already put it into SoyLatte.
>>> (gvSIG 2 will also do without the outer bundle, since we have learnt 
>>> that JAI-ImageIO causes Firefox and Opera to die when loading Java 
>>> applets, and so we don't install it system-wide but use it as an 
>>> extra .jar in the classpath)
>>> (remember to take out the jai-imageio.jar from your 
>>> ~/Library/Java/Extensions !)
>>> A hopefully minor problem will be that you won't be able to "osx-ize" 
>>> the user experience as much as with the Apple-provided JavaStub. 
>>> Expect problems with the app icon and name while running, for 
>>> example. (or maybe SoyLatte has already been prepared for that?...). 
>>> I think you could overcome that by creating your own substitute of 
>>> the JavaStub, with a little Cocoa program which would present itself 
>>> as gvSIG to the OS and start an embedded JVM which would run the 
>>> actual program....
>>> Also, can you confirm that the native functionalities (like loading a 
>>> TIFF) do work?
>>> I think we could polish a bit the whole thing and prepare it so 
>>> different versions of gvSIG can be dropped-in, if you agree.
>>> Cheers!
>>>> Thanks much for your help, Mijail!
>>>>
>>>> Ben
>>>>
>>>> P.S.: Yes, I copied the JAI I/O which the gvSIG installer put into
>>>> ~/Library/Java/Extensions ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mijail wrote:
>>>>> Maybe good news: the log you sent now says this:
>>>>> " La máquina virtual con la que se ejecuta gvSIG no tiene JAI 
>>>>> instalado"
>>>>> Which is spanish for "JAI is not installed in the VM executing 
>>>>> gvSIG". (I guess that should be localized or translated! :P)
>>>>> Also, in this log the JCRS error looks directly related to JAI:
>>>>> ERROR [AWT-EventQueue-1] (?:?) - Cannot locate extension 
>>>>> classorg.gvsig.crs.JCrsExtension
>>>>> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/media/jai/EnumeratedParameter
>>>>> Problem is, ... where to get JAI for SoyLatte?
>>>>> If it is not available as opensourced, my first idea is to try the 
>>>>> JAI installed in OS X's Java, which you will find in 
>>>>> /System/Library/Java/Extensions/ . (I hope Apple didn't do anything 
>>>>> unholy to them)
>>>>> Or maybe the .jar's (that is, the non-native parts) of the JAI 
>>>>> distribution for Linux or Windows.
>>>>> (and while we're at it, which JAI-ImageIO did you use? the one 
>>>>> included with gvSIG, I hope...).
>>>>> El 17/10/2008, a las 14:24, Benjamin Ducke escribió:
>>>>>> La máquina virtual con la que se ejecuta gvSIG no tiene JAI instalado
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>>>> -- 
>>>> Benjamin Ducke
>>>> Senior Applications Support and Development Officer
>>>>
>>>> Oxford Archaeology Ltd
>>>> Janus House
>>>> Osney Mead
>>>> OX2 0ES
>>>> Oxford, U.K.
>>>>
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>> Benjamin Ducke
>> Senior Applications Support and Development Officer
>>
>> Oxford Archaeology Ltd
>> Janus House
>> Osney Mead
>> OX2 0ES
>> Oxford, U.K.
>>
>> Tel: +44 (0)1865 263 800 (switchboard)
>> Tel: +44 (0)1865 980 758 (direct)
>> Fax :+44 (0)1865 793 496
>> benjamin.ducke at oxfordarch.co.uk
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>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
>>                       "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
>> <plist version="1.0">
>>  <dict>
>>    <key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
>>    <string>gvsig_launcher.sh</string>
>>    <key>CFBundleIconFile</key>
>>    <string>logo gvsig.icns</string>
>>    <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
>>    <string>com.iver.cit.gvsig</string>
>>    <key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
>>    <string>6.0</string>
>>    <key>CFBundleName</key>
>>    <string>gvSIG</string>
>>    <key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
>>    <string>APPL</string>
>>    <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
>>    <string>1.1.2</string>
>>    <key>CFBundleSignature</key>
>>    <string>????</string>
>>    <key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key>
>>    <string>gvSIG 1.1.2</string>
>>    <key>CFBundleAllowMixedLocalizations</key>
>>    <string>false</string>
>>    <key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
>>    <string>Spanish</string>
>>    <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
>>    <string>1045</string>
>>  </dict>
>> </plist>
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Benjamin Ducke
Senior Applications Support and Development Officer

Oxford Archaeology Ltd
Janus House
Osney Mead
OX2 0ES
Oxford, U.K.

Tel: +44 (0)1865 263 800 (switchboard)
Tel: +44 (0)1865 980 758 (direct)
Fax :+44 (0)1865 793 496
benjamin.ducke at oxfordarch.co.uk

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