JAVA apps for PUPPY run in JRE/JDK/OpenJRE/OpenJDK

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gcmartin · #1 Post by **gcmartin** » Thu 17 May 2012, 21:55

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.

Several PUPs include 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 in this thread for other members to see/find useful experiences, installation concerns or useful apps.

Addendum(s)

Installation and Updating of JAVA's JRE or JAVA's JDK
- @Rerwin offers this - A Menu oriented Pet that updates any system to install and update JAVA under user's control via an entry in the PUP's Menu.
Installation of JAVA's JDK
- @OscarTalks offers this of JAVA's JDK
Installation of JAVA's JRE
- @BoxR provides JAVA JRE PETs for 32 & 64 bit distros
  @Musher0 offers this of JAVA's JRE with bugfix by @Rerwin here
These are just a couple; there are other similar installation offerings in the forum.
A comprehensive list of forum and PUPPY offerings for JAVA are at this PUPPY location.

All contributions to benefit community users to this thread are welcomed.

musher0 · #2 Post by **musher0** » Fri 18 May 2012, 03:03

Hello, gcmartin.

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

./Data:
csheets.jar --- tba
CSV2XML.jar --- tba
xmltocsv --- tba

./Writing:
Arachnophilia --- http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.php
javaDjVu --- http://djvu.sourceforge.net/
jedit --- http://www.jedit.org
jreepad --- http://jreepad.sourceforge.net/
tonicpoint-1.4 --- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports ... nt-1.4.jar

./Translation
OmegaT --- http://www.omegat.org/
bitext2tmx --- http://bitext2tmx.sourceforge.net/

./CD burning
jcdwriter --- http://jcdwriter.sourceforge.net/

./FileManagers:
mucommander --- http://www.mucommander.com/
JFileSync --- http://jfilesync.sourceforge.net/index.shtml

./Images:
chaos attractors --- http://sourceforge.net/projects/attractors/
javaDjVu libre --- http://djvu.sourceforge.net/
jdraw --- http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia ... Draw.shtml
PhotoBlender --- http://photoblender.softonic.com/

./Internet:
Signets-bu20b7 --- bookmarks organizer --- tba
vuze --- http://www.vuze.com/

./Games:
FourWins --- tba

./Music:
jplayer -- tba

./PIM and / or Time Management:
BORG --- http://sourceforge.net/projects/borg-calendar/
ganttproject --- http://www.ganttproject.biz/
openproj --- http://sourceforge.net/projects/openproj/
stodo --- https://code.google.com/p/stodo/downloa ... odo0.5.zip

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 · #3 Post by **666philb** » Fri 08 Jun 2012, 19:08

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 · #4 Post by **Monsie** » Tue 07 Aug 2012, 08:58

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 · #5 Post by **jpeps** » Mon 31 Dec 2012, 06:33

Monsie wrote: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:

Slow due to double buffering. This could be changed to make better use of the OS's graphic card:

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/13 ... celeration

Java thread in Programming (contains app and link to updated jre):
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=83337

musher0 · #6 Post by **musher0** » Tue 08 Jan 2013, 15:40

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 · #7 Post by **jpeps** » Tue 08 Jan 2013, 19:36

musher0 wrote:
I didn't do anything much with it, but it does work well in Puppy. Java is required, of course.

musher0

Impressive! It even does online searches, adding all technical info for selected items into your personal database.

Here's another: JGnash. Besides financial accounts, has a portfolio manager that updates securities.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jgnash/?source=dlp

robwoj44 · #8 Post by **robwoj44** » Tue 09 Jul 2013, 18:56

musher0 · #9 Post by **musher0** » Wed 04 Sep 2013, 03:45

Hello, all.

(Sorry for the inconvenience: for some reason, the url brackets are not doing the expected job tonight.)

Here are two java* applications which I discovered, that specialize in PDF files.

PDFsam is an applications to split and merge PDF documents.
Download: url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfsam/ ... p/download[/url]
General site: url]http://www.pdfsam.org/[/url]

jPDFbookmarks will help you bookmark your PDF doc.
General sourceforge page: url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/jpdfbookmarks/[/url]
Help page: url]http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/j ... =Main_Page[/url]

Along with the poppler applications and libraries,
url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppler_(software)[/url]

PDFEdit,
url]http://pdfedit.cz/en/index.html[/url]

and the default PDF viewer and creation utilities found in all Puppies,

the two PDF processing applications above may save you a bundle, as compared to

Acrobat XI Pro ( +/- 285 Euros or 380 $CAD).
url]http://www.adobe.com/fr/products/catalo ... ar_fr.html[/url]

No thanks necessary! It's just the combined magic of opensource, and of the patience to query the Web!

musher0

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* A recent java JRE is needed to run those two applications.

#10 Post by **Flash** » Wed 04 Sep 2013, 22:26

Piggydb: A little, interesting digital assistant

...Very often, the main problem with computers and the Internet is not creation, or even discovery, of data or whole documents; it is to generally make sense of all those things and, above all, of their more or less evident connections. Today, I'd like to introduce you to a little piece of free software that tries to make this very task a bit simpler.

...Piggydb is a Java application aiming to become "a flexible and scalable knowledge building platform that supports a heuristic or bottom-up approach to discover new concepts or ideas based on your input." Quite a mouthful, isn't it? In plain English, this means that some day, Piggydb should semi-automatically discover, or at least make much more visible, connections among pieces of information that the user didn't declare or know about when he or she first fed them to the software. This continuous, ever-improving self reorganization of data should help users discover new ideas and generally be more creative.

... Don't let buzzwords and long-term roadmaps mislead you. In its current state, Piggydb already is an interesting combination of outliner, diary, notebook and personal wiki. It's definitely worth a try, in my opinion, by everybody working with lots of interrelated, mostly textual content.

... Piggydb is available as a stand-alone desktop application or as an "all-in-one" package. The latter is a web server accessible by any browser, even remotely, and that's the version I tested and show here.

Both variants will run everywhere Java is available. The installation procedure on Linux, however, at least for the all-in-one package, is just a bit more work than it seems from the web site....

neerajkolte · #11 Post by **neerajkolte** » Tue 20 May 2014, 13:33

Nice little tools.

musher0 · #12 Post by **musher0** » Sun 25 May 2014, 00:39

Hello, all.

Small business owners using Puppy as base OS may be interested by
YABS, Yet Another Business Software, v. 1.13, available from
http://java-apps.org/content/show.php/Y ... ent=121340
Screen captures attached, of a test run with jre1.7.0_51.

BFN.

musher0

stemsee · #13 Post by **stemsee** » Sun 25 May 2014, 06:56

Don't forget

MINECRAFT.jar

hee hee

gcmartin · #14 Post by **gcmartin** » Thu 26 Jun 2014, 20:17

There have been several recent updates for Puppy by its developers. There are JAVA SFSs and JAVA PETs of current JAVA releases.

TrolSoft · #15 Post by **TrolSoft** » Fri 11 Jul 2014, 13:24

Hi everybody,

Since the muCommander projects is dead (the project is no longer updated) I have started my fork. Perhaps it will be helpful for Puppy.

Main features and changes:
- Find files dialog
- Improved text viewer and editor with syntax highlighting, undo/redo, and caret position store, history of recent files
- Directory size calculation on F3 key
- Improved image viewer. Now muCommander supports the following image formats: png, gif, jpg, bmp, wbmp, ico, psd, tga, tiff, pnm, pbm, pgm, ppm, scr.
- Internal PDF viewer
- HEX viewer
- Search history
- Built in programmers calculator (like Dos Navigator)
- Symlink editor and creator
- Hotkey F2 to run terminal
- Fixed keyboard shortcuts for Mac OS
- Some performance optimizations
- Fixed a lot of bugs
- A lot of minor improvements

I plan to develop the project in the future.

Home page: http://trolsoft.ru/en/soft/trolcommander/

musher0 · #16 Post by **musher0** » Fri 11 Jul 2014, 18:54

Thanks for the update.

gcmartin · #17 Post by **gcmartin** » Sat 12 Jul 2014, 07:39

Hello @TrolSoft. And WELCOME to Puppy Linux Discussion forum. This is a friendly helpful community that you will right at home in.

You bring an excellent Filemanager to Puppy Linux. As, I have reviewed your site, I can see the expansion in what you have done with muCommander with the releases you've been providing. The bug fixes are impressive as some of the problems I have hit in the past on the old muCommander.

As you product is a fork, you may want to consider a name change to make your offering unique as it evolves.

I am sure, that the Puppy community will rally around you, as this excellent filemanager goes forward.

Puppy Linux has its own package manager and packages are usually offered as PET (the extension of a Puppy package). The PETs are available for distro building (WOOF-CE) as well as via REPOs for download-installations. Ofter time, some developers in this community will maintain a thread exclusively for the discussion of their package. A PET is also installable into a running Puppy distro, outside of the PPM utility, by clicking on it in a filemanager.

At some point, you will consider providing your filemanager as a package for developers who would enclose it in a Puppy distro they build as well as one that a user would find available via the Puppy Package Manager (PPM).

Finally, when a developer creates a PET, there are several Puppy members who maintain sites to assist PET delivery. Others methods that is used by PET developers is their own sites, Google, DropBox, and various others.

Should you desire help, simple create a thread and post a request for guidance.

TrolSoft · #18 Post by **TrolSoft** » Mon 21 Jul 2014, 11:38

Thanks, @ gcmartin.

I have change name of my build to trolCommander and start a new forum thread http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 275#790275

Hopefully in the future I will build as well PET-packages.

muggins · #19 Post by **muggins** » Thu 31 Jul 2014, 06:14

What about Kangas Sound Editor?

nic007 · #20 Post by **nic007** » Thu 31 Jul 2014, 06:36

Opera Mini browser. Generally you will need JRE and an emulator like microemulator to run this and other mobile java applications/games on desktop/laptop.

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