[FreeNX-kNX] about java client

[Marc Chantreux]

Hello all,

le 09/08/2006,
The Beast in Black nous écrivait :
>    Mr. Lee,
> 
>    There was indeed a java client (applet) written by someone at strasbourg
>    university, france,

In fact, the java client you're talking about has been written by ULP 
Multimedia, which is a central department of Strasbourg Louis Pasteur 
University (France) developing the use of ICT in education, scientific 
and technical communication and research.

The applet is a part of the project Univ-Rx which provides a complete 
remote desktop and collaborative workspace to our students, professors, 
researchers.

>    but the page is currently not loading. However, in the
>    hopes that it may be up sometime in the future, here is the URL:
> 
>    [1]http://univ-rx.u-strasbg.fr/projets/applet-univrx

This page was a development website. The Univ-Rx is now stable enought
to go public with it so we published an official website you can join at
http://ulpmm-projets.u-strasbg.fr.

>    I had tried this java client, and had mixed results (it sometimes
>    connects, sometimes does not connect). In all fairness, however, i must
>    mention that the last time i checked, the code was still marked
>    experimental and, as such, not meant for production use.

The code is no longer experimental. The current sources are now in a SVN
(http://ulpmm-projets.u-strasbg.fr/svn/applet-univrx/trunk) and can be
considered as beta. It also includes:

-          a graphical file transfert manager
-          a better error handler
-          a lot of fixes

The applet enables the access to Univ-Rx to 30 000 users of Strasbourg
universities trought a SSO portal. A users community already exists: it
grows every day (for exemple, Rennes University is interested by the
project) helping us by reporting bugs. 

>      most device support java/j2me, so I think java client may be the best
>      choice for all kinds of mobile devices.

The two core developpers (Eric Decornod and Matthias Meusburger) are
both in holliday but Eric told me that there is a special branch of jsch
for j2me and the univ-rx code need to be touched to use it.

We also think that the biggest part of the job is to make it possible to
have the X binaries on the mobile devices.

regards,
Marc Chantreux