Shoka

For all of you, windows users, who found the sad 404 page
Please, try again…

Unfortunatly I’ve found that the jws version on linux (ubuntu in my tests) cannot use shoka local networking. This issue is related to ipv6 support in linux and multicast support in shoka.

Linux users who expirienced this problem can try the single jar version…

I hope to fix this soon

These is an intermediate release while I’m preparing the full tag support…

This release is quite usable on mac os x. Some new problem is introduced by the new network sharing code. I hope to resolve them as soon as possible.

what’s new :

• new single jar distribution for linux and windows
• distribution from source revisited to be simplier
• linux thumbs issue resolved
• network communication rewritten
• various fixes… but it’s still a beta release

Running from jws,  jre 5.0 was required and now it’s fixed to support 5.0 or greater.If you experienced proplem running shoka via jws with jre 6.0, please try again.

thanks to Thermopyle ( more )

I’m currently working to fix display problems on linux. I didn’t imagine SWT should behave so differently on different platforms.
The source code distribution will be modified to easily compile under linux ( I use a Ubuntu Dapper Drake distr ). So, linux users, come back next week and download 0.1.3 source code.

At least I’ve finished this first bug fighting… and 0.1.2 is the result…

It’s very faster than 0.1.101 in the icon view and browsing.

Mac users will enjoy the new thumbs rendered using cocoa.

Some note:

• like before, shoka may not quit correctly due to a problem with network announcing…
• you must delete your old thumbs (from menu Documents->delete thumb) if you see quared icons
• sources are now available in the downloads page

While working on some bugfixes and speed-ups I found a way to generate thumbnails through the mighty cocoa-java bridge… Very quick but also very dangerous as you must pay attention to garbage collection. If the VM garbage collect a cocoa object that wasn’t correctly disposed… CRASH! The vm is down. This is a really bad issue for a Java programmer. One of the few certain things about java is that even if you’re a bad programmer and write bad programs it won”t crash.

Nothing that can be resolved with a couple of hours of hard work. But times goes by and release slips away…

After a long period of intense meditation, it’s finally ready.

Keep in mind that this is a beta version, so be carefull and take a copy of your documents.
This version is available for download for Mac Os X as a dmg, and via Java Web Start for other platforms.
Some known issues:

• sometimes it does not shut down cleanly, must kill manually with no issues
• share browsing is too slow (optimization coming soon)
• preview of remote documents is not available
• some slowdown generating thumbnails on slower machines ( like on my powerbook )