As discussed on #abcl some days ago with Alessio (and Erik?), I have moved the unused code from org.armedbear.lisp.java.* to 'examples/gui' as it is a better fit there. Under the examples I created a simple Ant build.xml with the base outline of a README. The domain of using ABCL to take the tedium out of Swing development and/or the combination with [JSS][1] to produce an interactively built GUI is potentially very interesting to a wider audience, but the examples are currently very thin. But maybe we should just direct people to [Snow][2], as that is where a lot of energy has seemingly been spent.
[1]: http://code.google.com/p/lsw2/source/browse/#svn/trunk/jss [2]: http://common-lisp.net/project/snow/
I've [placed the code that Alessio wrote for a minimal Swing REPL console in org.armedbear.lisp.java.swing.REPLConsole][3], which has a suitable Main method so that
java -cp abcl.jar org.armedbear.lisp.java.swing.REPLConsole
will bring it "up" in the local display.
[3]: http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/changeset/12734
This console code is [the current basis][4] for the embedding of ABCL in the Protege ontology editor, although that currently uses its own version. I don't like the creation of Threads in the constructor, but haven't had time to figure out if there is a better way to go. The intention is to provide a standard way for people to embed ABCL with a minimal REPL for their domain-specific Java application, so I when I get the time I will revisit the Protege plugin to use this code.
[4]: http://svn.neurocommons.org/svn/trunk/protege/org.sciencecommons.protege.lis...