Mono development in openmoko

[Schmidt András]

Hi Juan,

 From technology side Java and C# is so similar that they should do the 
same performance. It is only Microsoft who is hyping that C# performs 
better. The only difference I know and has performance effect is the 
presence of structures in C# but not many programs would make an 
advantage of that.

The performance of a specific implementation is a different question... 
I have no clue how Cacao compares to Mono. It would worth measuring...
I have some experience with both languages as I am developing a map 
viewer application (http://yamamap.wiki.sourceforge.net/) that has a 
Mono and a Java version as well. The software is intended to work on 
OpenMoko.

Both Mono and Java are available for OpenMoko. These are my own experiences:

Mono:
I have no phone yet, but David Roetzel has tried to run the yama 
application on the phone and it worked. In the mail there is a link to 
the original post, where Cliff Brake announces that the mono framework 
is ported for OpenMoko:  
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2007-December/012125.html

Java:
The Jalimo (https://wiki.evolvis.org/jalimo/index.php/Main_Page) project 
addresses porting Java SE to the phone. The JVM is Cacao and the 
classpath is the GNU classpath (Sebastian Mancke has written some 
guidelines for Java development on OpenMoko: 
http://lists.evolvis.org/pipermail/jalimo-info/2008-January/000028.html). 
Cacao is compatible with Java 6 binaries and the GNU classpath is aiming 
the Java5 classpath. There are some details missing yet but it is 
possible to get a general purpose application that works with them. 
Latest versions of Yama works with GNU classpath but it was not tested 
on a GTA01 phone yet.

So both Mono and Java is available on the phone. What I wanted to 
suggest is to consider using Java in case you know both technologies.

I am so curious, may I ask you what are you planning to develop for the 
OpenMoko platform?

Hope I could help you

Schmidt András


Juan Luis Prieto Martinez wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am very interesting in developing something for openmoko in mono, 
> but I think that is not very popular at the moment, at least there 
> aren´t so many comments about this theme in the list or the wiki. I 
> would like to know if some of you have tried to develop anything using 
> Mono. And if you need any special plugin or framework to do that.
>
> At least from my point of view the use of C# could be as interesting 
> as the use of C or C++ and tools should be faster than python or java.
>
> Thanks
>
> Best Regards.
>
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> JuanLu
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