Swing Rocks

Now it’s only one day left until we get to get up ridiculously early, stand in way too many lines at various airport, and hopefully end up safe in San Francisco. I’m not that excited about the flight from Frankfurt to San Francisco, flights shouldn’t have to take a two-digit number of hours. I’ve bought a big battery for my little netbook, but I really hope to sleep through as much of the flight as possible. We aren’t super prepared for our talk yet, but we have some time to rehearse in San Francisco, and we’re both pretty confident that we’ll be ready well in time for thursday.

The last few days we’ve fixed the problem that prevented Feedjii from running on OS X, but our solution isn’t perfect yet. As we’ll probably be busy preparing for our talk in San Francisco, I wouldn’t count on a new beta release until we’re back home again. Feel free to drop us an e-mail if you’re going to JavaOne and feel like meeting up. I’m sure we’ll have time for a beer or two, despite our busy schedule

A lot of people have let us know that Feedjii doesn’t seem to play well with OS X. This is of course a shame, especially since I’m a long time mac-user. The thing most people seem to have problems with is the class com.sun.awt.AWTUtilities is missing. I could be wrong, but I believe this class was introduced in Java 6 update 10, and with the latest official Java version from Apple, I think all we’re getting is Java 6 update 7. In Feedjii, this class is used to create the (custom) rounded corners of the application window, and we should clearly have some kind of fallback mechanism here.

The somewhat embarrassing reason we didn’t test this ourselves is that I was totally convinced I couldn’t run Java 6 on my iMac. As far as I know, it’s only available for 64-bit Intel processors, and I simply didn’t think my Core 2 Duo was one of them. When I checked this morning, I was surprised to see that I actually had Java 6 installed, so I guess I was simply wrong. I hope we can add a nice workaround for this problem, and ultimately also get our application running on Java 5. Obviously without some of the bling-bling, but running nonetheless.

Thanks for your patience!

It’s been a lot of work but finally we beleive that we have something that looks like a beta release of feedjii (just in time for JavaOne)

Start Feedjii here

Feel free to test run it, we are more than happy to hear what you think of it.

When JavaOne is over we plan to open source the entire application as well as individual components.