Where is the Java?!?

[aaeamdar2]

I'm extremely glad that this thread was posted, because I had been informed that support for Java was already available and I was going to proceed on that assumption.

I guess my question at this point is... when will it be available for sure? Is there some guarantee that a working version will be available even for ship date? Or say, two weeks into build? If not, I think teams that are interested in Java may have to look elsewhere this year, because you need to *know* that you can program the robot when build season starts.

On a side note (and I'm sure this information is available somewhere), what does the process look like for loading Java code onto the bot? In other words, does it go from a specific IDE designed for this? Or can I just write the code in a text editor?

-Paul Dennis

[Tom Line]

Oh, I have no doubt a very working and robust version of Java will be shipped for kickoff and I hope I didn't give an impression otherwise. My comments above were related to one issue currently going that was just an excellent example of why it hasn't been released to all the teams yet. The beta teams have already found a way to work around it while a fix is made (usually fixes come out within a day or two - that's how hard WPI and NI are working). The beta teams are already using it very successfully and it's had some really enthusiastic comments on how it works.

Specific questions about Java should be posted here:

http://forums.usfirst.org/forumdisplay.php?f=1264

They have example code posted and will be happy to get you started, plus they are the 'official' site.

[Nick Lawrence]

Originally Posted by aaeamdar2

I'm extremely glad that this thread was posted, because I had been informed that support for Java was already available and I was going to proceed on that assumption.

I guess my question at this point is... when will it be available for sure? Is there some guarantee that a working version will be available even for ship date? Or say, two weeks into build? If not, I think teams that are interested in Java may have to look elsewhere this year, because you need to *know* that you can program the robot when build season starts.

On a side note (and I'm sure this information is available somewhere), what does the process look like for loading Java code onto the bot? In other words, does it go from a specific IDE designed for this? Or can I just write the code in a text editor?

-Paul Dennis

I guess it's done when it's not making robots turn into vehicles of injury.

That kind of sounds like Duke Nukem Forever. Let's just hope this doesn't suffer the same fate.

-Nick