Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[gcmartin]

Many community members may not know what JAVA does. For those reading this that don't know, briefly, I share "JAVA has always been a method of have a single program which will run ANYWHERE that JAVA exist." That's its intent. In Microsoft and Apple, JAVA is built into the system and users don't have a need to choose JAVA before using any JAVA application. In many/most cases, a user does NOT KNOW when they may be running a JAVA app because it Just Works! Essentially, a JAVA app which runs in JAVA in Puppy also run on Microsoft-Apple, too; and vice-versa. I am no programmer, but, this benefits 32bit and 64bit users as well.

In the last 2 months, several PUPs are now including a JVM for this very reason....useful for all members with little to NO system impact during system's operation. For the benefit to PUP users, we will probably see this subsystem showing up to the benefit of all users.

If you are using a PUP that has a JVM (JRE/OpenJDK/JDK for example), then one or all of the following could be useful to you.

• muCommander - a very useful FM allowing side-by-side viewing of different foldess (PET from @DPUP5520)
  
• AngryIP - a easy to understand and use IP discovery tool from the World's Faster LAN/IP acanner (PET from @DPUP5520)
  
• IP monitor - will provide continual monitoring of your externally assigned Internet IP address assigned from your ISP (PET from @DPUP5520)
  
• LibreOffice - a full featured Office package that understands most/all different document formats(PET from @01Micko)

All of these packages work in each of the PUPs I have tested. But, I have ONLY tested with the JRE that either came with the PUP distro or was installed from #Pemasu's PPM download site.

Should you have any JAVA apps that you want made known, post your experience here.

[musher0]

Hello, gcmartin.

Thanks for the invitation. Here are a few more that I've tested:

./Data:
csheets.jar
CSV2XML.jar
xmltocsv

./Writing:
Arachnophilia
javaDjVu
jedit
jreepad
tonicpoint-1.4

./Translation
OmegaT
bitext2tmx

./FileManagers:
jcdwriter
JFileSync

./Images:
attractors-1.0-beta4
javaDjVu
jdraw
jpa
PhotoBlender

./Internet:
Signets-bu20b7
vuze

./Games:
FourWins

./Music:
jplayer

./TimeManagement:
BORG-1.7.5
ganttproject
openproj
stodo

Some of them are major in their field, such as BORG and ganttproject, or omegaT, or vuze, or jedit. (I can't name them all, really!)

There's a lot more java apps at http://java-apps.org/ and a good selection on sourceforge.net (enter java as search parameter).

Explore and enjoy!

[666philb]

here's some i use

groovejaar (grooveshark downloader/player) http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72079

tvbrowser (digital tv guide) http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=77229

jdownloader (download manager) http://jdownloader.org/

IOgraph (doodle whilst you work) http://iographica.com/

apophysis (flame fractal generator) http://jfbouzereau.free.fr/apophysis.html

Vidmasta (video streamer/downloader) https://sites.google.com/site/vidmastasoftware/

gifted motion (create animated gifs) http://www.onyxbits.de/giftedmotion

[Monsie]

I find that Java apps tend to be slow loading up on my old Pentium3. Nevertheless, I have a couple of Java programs that I keep because they seem to fill a special purpose:

Stuck Pixel Sweeper --monitor repair utility
CharMap -- insert special symbols in text

I wrote about Stuck Pixel Sweeper earlier this year in the Utilities section. It really is a special purpose app that one isn't going to use very often, but will tuck away for when it is needed.

A character map is very useful from time to time when writing documents. I have yet to find one that is made for or adapted for Puppy surprisingly enough.... maybe there are some... I haven't made an exhaustive search.

Monsie

[jpeps]

[musher0]

Hi, folks.

If you need a flexible collections manager, this version of DataCrow was launched last Sunday : http://www.datacrow.net/. It's a big download (67 Mb), but it's mentioned on the website of its competitor, Tellico, for Linux distros that don't have a KDE environment, I presume. So it has to be good.

I didn't do anything much with it, but it does work well in Puppy. Java is required, of course.

BFN.

musher0

[jpeps]