This whitepaper, by Microwindows Project leader Greg Haerr, explains how you can greatly simplify the task of porting a non-Linux graphics application to embedded Linux. The magic lies in taking advantage of “glue layers” that convert between APIs. Haerr writes . . .

“Glue layers can greatly simplify the porting of applications from one software environment to another. The concept of a “glue layer” becomes especially practical when there is a large body of already-debugged application software, and it's not desireable to recode that software to a new, different programming interface.”

” . . . In a matter of a single day I had Microwindows running the Java applications. Needless to say, the vendor was very impressed!”

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