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BlueJ Java IDE Portable
darksabre76 - April 20, 2011 - 3:42am
Application: BlueJ Java IDE
Category: Development
Description: From the publisher's website:
BlueJ is an integrated Java environment specifically designed for introductory teaching.
BlueJ was developed at a University specifically for the purpose of teaching object orientation with Java.
BlueJ is free!
SourceForge project page
Download BlueJ Portable 3.0.6 Dev Test 1 (44.4MB download / 75.3MB installed)
(MD5: af2a355dfd560abda4c07e7707bf2df0)
FOR TEST ONLY, NOT FOR NORMAL USE YET (Includes OpenJDK 7 build 146):
Download BlueJ Portable 3.0.6 Dev Test 2 (76.7MB download / 172MB installed)
(MD5: 17351f583e667adfee1f2cd35ccf36b6)
Release Notes:
See all release notes at the SourceForge project page.
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Well then...
I guess I will make a version of this... without the JDK and see how that goes. The only unfortunate part is that it needs the JDK to work =/
Portable Java
If you want to pursue this, you need to get it to work with JPortable if Java isn't installed on the machine it's used on. But that's easy for me to say - I haven't succeeded in fully converting any Java Apps yet! - I could do with some 'good' examples to learn the techniques from.
MJA
Problem
There's one major issue with that: JPortable doesn't include the JDK, all it includes is the launcher. The Java Development Kit is a much more complicated thing than the Java Runtime Environment, and I have definitely tried using only the JRE to make this work, but to no avail.
Yes, of course
My mistake. Obviously suffering from Brain Fade.
Looking at your difficulties a little more closely, they just seem to grow as there are also separate JDK downloads for x86 and x64 and licencing terms for the user to sign up prior to download so...
I really wish you the very best of luck working this one out!
MJA
Workaround
I may have found a gigantic loophole through which I can drive the boat that is this project. There is a project called OpenJDK that has a completely open sourced version of the JDK available as source code. Then, as luck would have it, OpenSCG has a completely pre-compiled verison for windows. I will be testing this to see if it works in my virtual environment before I even think about packaging it up, but this is definitely a good start for Alpha 2.
Release for Testing
Well, after two internal alpha iterations (only so I could get rid of the closed source JDK so I wouldn't have this project taken down), I managed to create a fully self-contained version of BlueJPortable for public testing. Please see the link above for downloading.
Formatting
Now could you please format your post and package according the the Development Test guidelines? i.e. DisplayVersion needs to be using "Dev Test" rather than "Alpha", this thread needs to be cleaned up significantly.
(And don't put "internal versions" in, we really don't care about them as they weren't released and no one but you ever saw them.)
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Done
Everything has been revised according to the guidelines and I have posted on the Test Release page accordingly. Thanks for telling me about the guidelines... I completely forgot they existed
DevTest Versioning
You only increase the DevTest version when it's been released on these forums, thus this should either be DevTest 1 (first available release) or DevTest 2 (if you uploaded and made available the [unintentionally illegal] version which contained the [non-open] JDK previously.)
~3D1T0R
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Versioning
As you've indicated on SourceForge that the current release includes 3.0.5, the app versioning should indicate this as well, as well as go back to dev test 1.
Thanks
I didn't even notice I did that. The new version is going to be uploaded soon. I hope more people give feedback about the actual user experience though..
just my short Feedback
Well,
first thing I want to say is thank you for this nice Work!
Im using it actually for doing homework (our school system is very buggy) and have nearly nothing to criticize.
It works fine and is running very stable, in the last year it was only one time that it stopped doing what it should.
One thing I dont know about if it's fixable is that you cant open any documentation directly, there always occurs an error due to blueJ looking for the files in the standart installation folder on C:/Programs/BlueJ/
Its a bit annoying to always have to open the apps folder of where I saved blueJ and getting the documentations manually.
Btw, sry for the bad English, I hope I didnt melt your brain with all my mistakes
TheChallenge