Orbital in java/web for other os's

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how about a java orbital or something so it's posible to use the orbital like on laptop or a mac osx

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We don't have yet a version written in java, but you can use our Orbiter under Windows XP (written in C++) to run it on your laptop.
You could try recompile our orbiter to run under mac osx. We don't have a mac here, so we cannot test it.

Best regards,
Cristian Miron

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Yep.. java would be an excelent option...and recently Sun released the Java Source code to the Open source community, i think that it will became much faster in the future..
but Java r0x.. there is no need to have windows XP on an OpenSource powered house

so, if you dont have any java version yet, the mobile orbiter is coded in C++ ?

back later

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Yes, an Orbiter written in java would be nice, but it will take a lot to implement and maintain. The big problem will be to keep C++ sources and java sources in sync (adding a feature in C++ will need same modification in java code). Also, adding/modifying a command/event to Orbiter will need a modification made manually in java code to adapt DCE; so a code generator for java would be needed too.

For an Orbiter Mobile, we'll need to port BD commands from C++ to java and keep them in sync, but this will be easier that an "desktop" Orbiter.

Anyway, I would gladly support an Orbiter written in java, so if you need help for this, I'm here to help.

Best regards,
Cristian Miron