Abstract: A window manager proxy method, system, and product are described allowing a Java based desktop to provide window manager services on UNIX. A computer system executes a UNIX-based operating system and a desktop implemented in Java. The computer system does not include a separate window manager. Java applications are presented by the computer system utilizing a graphical user interface. Native UNIX applications are also presented by the computer system utilizing the same graphical user interface. Native UNIX applications interact with the window manager proxy in the same manner in which they would interact with a traditional window manager. The window manager proxy forwards frame window activity related to the desktop to the Java desktop, and is the native interface from the Java desktop to the native platform for frame window activities.

Abstract: Provided is an OSGiInstallBundle class that enables non-OSGi compliant resources, either Java, native code or some other format, to be downloaded from a server and installed on a client system running an OSGi framework. The OSGiInstallBundle class can be executed by a user or another bundle. The OSGiInstallBundle class manages non-OSGi resources by registering with the OSGi framework and evoking a start method. The start method extracts resources from, for example but not limited to, a Java archive, or JAR, file. In one embodiment, the registration of the class and information about the extracted files is broadcast to other installed OSGi bundles so that other OSGi bundles are aware of the newly installed bundle and its resources. In another embodiment, OSGi bundles may register a OSGIInstallBundle “listener” with the framework so that only those bundles that request notification of the installation of the non-OSGI bundle receive the notification.

Abstract: A window manager proxy method, system, and product are described allowing a Java based desktop to provide window manager services on UNIX. A computer system executes a UNIX-based operating system and a desktop implemented in Java. The computer system does not include a separate window manager. Java applications are presented by the computer system utilizing a graphical user interface. Native UNIX applications are also presented by the computer system utilizing the same graphical user interface. Native UNIX applications interact with the window manager proxy in the same manner in which they would interact with a traditional window manager. The window manager proxy forwards frame window activity related to the desktop to the Java desktop, and is the native interface from the Java desktop to the native platform for frame window activities.