Re: Objective-C and Java

[John W. Fondon III (Trey)]

Hi Alex,
    I'm tip-toeing here because I know you're working your a** off trying to
get this out, but I noticed you mentioned HPUX 9 & 10 but not HPUX 11.  If I
may [gingerly and humbly] ask:  does this mean anything w.r.t. hpux 11
support?

regards,

Trey

John W. Fondon III (Trey)
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
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-----Original Message-----
From: Marcus G. Daniels <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden <address@hidden>
Date: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: Objective-C and Java


>>>>>> "NG" == Natalie Guay <address@hidden> writes:
>
>NG> Is there a way to "call" the Swarm
>NG> libraries that are in Objective-C in a program that I've made in Java
???
>
>Yes, in 2.0, Swarm can be loaded into a Java environment as a shared
>library, and there will be .jar file of Java classes describing the
>Swarm protocols, tagging all the existing Swarm methods as native
>methods.  Objective C message forwarding is used to issue Java calls
>from the scheduling machinery, and Java to Objective C calls are done
>with stubs per JNI conventions.
>
>NG> By the way, what's happening with Swarm 2.0 in Java ???
>
>I'm working on it!  Shared libraries are needed for all platforms, as
>well as complete support for building and dissecting generic method
>calls and their return values.  Together, these two problems introduce
>a lot of architecture-specific hacking, and have consumed a lot of
>time [separate calling conventions and dynamic linking systems for
>GNU/Linux, HPUX 9 and 10, Irix 5 and 6, Sparc Solaris, Alpha platforms
>like Digital Unix, Windows 98 and NT, etc.]
>
>Btw, PowerPC will be unsupported since I don't have access to a
>capable box configured with anything Unix-like.  I expect that
>[pain-in-the] AIX won't be supported either, since even the Objective C
>compiler is broken for AIX.
>
>
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