"Getting Started with Java SE Embedded on the Raspberry Pi" (by Bill Courington and Gary Collins)

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/raspberrypi-1704896.html by Bill Courington and Gary Collins

It includes a lot of useful Linux tweaks, that you may want to apply apart from installing Java SE anyway.

Resize the SD Card Partitions:

About half the card’s space is unallocated. The biggest chunk of free space follows the /dev/sdb3 partition. To add this space to /dev/sdb2 (the file system), we temporarily delete /dev/sdb3, extend /dev/sdb2, then re-create /dev/sdb3.

I started making use of the "Java SE" label with this article. Should apply it elsewhere as well.

It has a section "Optional Linux Tuning and Tweaking":

• Set Up Static IP Address
• Enable Swapping and Optimize File System Access Time
• Set Time Zone and Locale
• Set Up a Time Server
• Set Up an Internet Proxy
• Remap the Keyboard
• Update Debian Packages
• Automatically Start the Graphical User Interface
• Add a Different Web Browser
• Enable Sound

Do I really want to swap on the SD card? They discourage it there.

Perl modules to deal with config files à la "Java Properties": Config::Properties and Config::Properties::Simple

• https://metacpan.org/pod/Config::Properties
• https://metacpan.org/pod/Config::Properties::Simple

installing Oracle "Java SE for Embedded" on a Synology NAS

• http://missilehugger.com/203/

I think, I will use his description for setting up Java on my Synology NAS (resp. NASs), so that I can run the Hibiscus Server (implemented in Java) on them. My NAS at home has plenty of Internet bandwith available, so that I can get my bank account transactions updated over the Internet quite often each day.

Oracle's description on "Oracle Java SE Embedded Downloads":

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/embedded/downloads/javase/index.html

For the DS112+ I chose the "ARMv5 Linux" entry "successfully". The ARMv6/7 and ARMv7 entries did not run at all. 

For the DS213+ I chose the "Power Architecture Linux - … - e500v2" entry "successfully".

Hibiscus Payment Server – HBCI banking

• http://www.willuhn.de/products/hibiscus-server/
• http://www.willuhn.de/products/hibiscus-server/install.php
• http://www.willuhn.de/products/hibiscus-server/support.php
• http://www.willuhn.de/wiki/ – I don't see Hisbiscus Server mentioned
• http://www.onlinebanking-forum.de/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=33
• http://www.willuhn.de/bugzilla

With the hibiscus-server running on (let's say) your current machine at port 8080 (AKA https://localhost:8080), you have a few rather useful services available:

• https://localhost:8080/hibiscus/ – the "Hibiscus Management Console" – this is where you enter your HBCI accounts and where you can view account statements etc
• https://localhost:8080/webadmin/ – the "Jameica Management Console" for the Hibiscus Server
• https://localhost:8080/webadmin/rest.html – the Management Console shows a link "REST Services" listing available REST services, amongst others the list of accounts and list of transactions … (see below)
• https://localhost:8080/webadmin/rest/hibiscus/konto/list – a JSON list of the accounts, of course with details
• https://localhost:8080/webadmin/rest/hibiscus/konto/2/umsaetze/days/999 – a JSON list of transactions on account "2" (you can find acount "2" described above) during the last 999 days
• All that is implemented in Java.

I would love to see this running on my Synology NAS at home with plenty of Internet bandwith available, so that I can get my bank account transactions updated over the Internet a few times each day.

These days Synology does not supply Java on their devices – I assume, they do not want to get officially bothered with Java difficulties on their devices. But still here I found a description of how to install Oracle Java SE on a Synology NAS:

• http://missilehugger.com/203/

Wth the "https://localhost:8080/webadmin/rest/hibiscus/konto/…" REST services listed above I get hold off account data rather, rather easily like this:

$ curl --sslv3 --insecure \
    --user jameica:PASSWORD \
    https://localhost:8080/webadmin/rest/hibiscus/konto/list

Now I prefer developing software using Perl, and I will make use of the JSON lists in Perl, and that should be rather easy. I think, I am going to abandon my web-scraping scripts in Perl, once all this is in place. Web-scraping banking web-sites is a rather tedious business, whereas HBCI is a confirmed banking standard in this country (Germany), and I consider the Hibiscus Server as a rather either way to deal with the HBCI Moloch AKA FinTS.

…:

• http://www.willuhn.de/wiki/doku.php?id=support:list:banken:misc:pintan – bank details needed to set up an HBCI account

book: Programming Clojure (2nd edition)

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Programming Clojure

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Programming Concurrency on the JVM

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Programming Concurrency on the JVM

Java Platform, Micro/Standard/Enterprise Edition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Java Platform, Micro Edition
• Java Platform, Standard Edition
• Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 

file formats in the Java universe: JAR, WAR, RAR, EAR, SAR, APK

JAR (file format) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Java 7 paralyses Lucene and Solr - The H Open Source: News and Features

Java 7 paralyses Lucene and Solr - The H Open Source: News and Features

JetBrains produces another Java alternative - The H Open Source: News and Features

JetBrains produces another Java alternative - The H Open Source: News and Features

book: Groovy Recipes

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Groovy Recipes

.properties - Java's Property Resource Bundles

.properties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• For Western Europeans it's quite comfortable to be able to edit .properties files in ISO-8859-1 aka Latin-1.
• The 1st German .properties file, that I came across, was actually written using '\u00HH' for the German umlauts, with HH being the hexadecimal digits of the Latin-1 encoding of the character.
  I looked up the Wikipedia article on Unicode, and I learned that this is a perfectly legal encoding of the Latin-1 character set, i.e. the 1st 256 characters of Latin-1 and Unicode (resp. its "BMP") are the same.
• ...

book: Programming Groovy

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Programming Groovy

From the wikipedia article on Groovy:

Most Java code is also syntactically valid Groovy. […]

In July 2009, Strachan wrote on his blog that "I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming in Scala book by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I'd probably have never created Groovy."[1] Strachan left the project silently long before the Groovy 1.0 release in 2007.

Maybe I better focus on Scala than on Groovy.

Update 2011-07-01:
Purchased it as a used book through Amazon.de.

book: Programming Clojure

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Programming Clojure

Lisp on the JVM – maybe a nice idea.

Update 2011-08-07
Found a Clojure User Group Berlin.
Order the book through Amazon as used book, but with Amazon Prime service.

Oracle plans to offer a commercial Java Virtual Machine - The H Open Source: News and Features

Oracle plans to offer a commercial Java Virtual Machine - The H Open Source: News and Features