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JSPWiki on a cell phone

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I got encouraged by someone's tweet and decided to try this on my N900. And turns out it wasn't that difficult even, just did the following things:

Download Sun's preview of Java 6 on ARM and transfer to N900
On N900 mkdir /opt/java, untar the downloaded JRE there
Copied existing Tomcat installation with JSPWiki 2.8 to /opt/tomcat/ (could've also done an installation from scratch, should've worked)
Used QEmacs to tweak a couple of config files (server.xml needed the default Tomcat control port changed away from 8009, and jspwiki.properties needed to point at the right directory)
set up JAVA_HOME to point at the /opt/java/ejrexxx dir.
run /opt/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.16/bin/startup.sh
point browser at http://localhost:8080/JSPWiki/

And voila - we have a full Java JSP webapp (the same one that is currently serving you these pages) running on a cell phone. Since my setup stores all wikipages as flat text files, I can use it as a local text editor with hypertext editing capabilities. Or comes else comes to mind.

Nice...

(Tried shooting video too, but it was too blurry on my backup camera.)