Thanks Alon The GTK client + the protocol doc should get me pointed in the right direction. Cheers Tim <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Alon Levy <<a href="mailto:alevy@redhat.com">alevy@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Some clarifications to what I wrote. <div class="im"> On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 03:31:01PM +0200, Alon Levy wrote: > On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 03:15:52PM +0200, Timothy Sparg wrote: > > Hi all > > I'm interested in the possibilty of contributing a Java based client to > > the SPICE project. > > My long term goal would be to create a reusable viewer component - the > > same component could then be used to create an applet based viewer or a > > viewer embedded in a java application. > > I'm currently just perusing the SPICE protocol, but i suspect that it > > will take me a while to start getting my head around it. > > What are your views and thoughts as the SPICE developers, would you be > > interested in somebody working towards the goal of a java based client? > > Where should I get started learning the basics of the SPICE project? > > Regards > > Tim Sparg > > Sounds like something a lot of people could use. You have two source code > bases to look at, spicec and spice-gtk, for existing clients, though I suspect > the later is cleaner. spicec is pretty old, written in C++, spice-gtk is C and a > year and a half old and the future client, for instance it is the only one > with support for usb redirection right now. </div>I meant the new usb redirection support that is entirely open sourced. <div class="im"> > > The protocol is somewhat documented - the existing documentation is > unfortunately old and doesn't cover off screen surfaces. However it is still > mostly correct, so I'd start reading it, see documents link below. > > Main urls: > > documents - <a href="http://spice-space.org/documentation.html" target="_blank">http://spice-space.org/documentation.html</a> > but with the previous warning - some of it is old and false. > > source - <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice" target="_blank">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice</a> > the clients are: > old client: <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice/" target="_blank">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice/</a> </div>You want the "client" subdirectory, and also the "common" one. The server you can ignore. <div><div></div><div class="h5"> > (spicec is a place holder, the old client is meant to be moved > there eventually) > new client: <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk/" target="_blank">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk/</a> > > building/setup help - <a href="http://spice-space.org/page/DeveloperStartPage" target="_blank">http://spice-space.org/page/DeveloperStartPage</a> > > > _______________________________________________ > > Spice-devel mailing list > > <a href="mailto:Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > > <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel</a> > > _______________________________________________ > Spice-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>