[NotInControl]

Originally Posted by abrightwell

Great video, thanks for taking the time to put it together. My team has been wanting to move to Eclipse for some time now, this is really going to help us get there.

What would be really interesting to see is how to use the Java ME SDK and not the full SE SDK. What do you think about setting the Execution Environment to CDC 1.1? Have you tried this approach yet? I am going to play with it on my end, but I don't have a cRIO to test a full deployment at the moment. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.

Keep up the good work!

The Squawk Virtual Machine running on the cRIO is a Micro Edition Java Runtime Environment. So you are only limited to J2ME classes anyway.

If you changed your environment to CDC 1.1, everything would work the same as far as development is concerned, because your JRE setting really doesn't matter, you are not running the code on your machine so the JRE is never used. You are downloading the Java SE JDK to basically use the compiler and other tools that comes with it for development. The Java Runtime Environment doesn't include those items.

Which is why we usually set our Alternate Runtime Environment to just a JDK, because that's all we need.

So as far as code on the robot, you are limited to whats in the SunSpotFRCSDK which is a java micro variant plus some stuff that Squawk and WPILib throws in, and whatever classes you write yourself. You do not have access to the full SE resources because they simply wont run on the Squawk VM.

Hope this helps.

-Kev