>>>>> "PT" == Pietro Terna <address@hidden> writes:
PT> Is it possible to access Swarm ObjC classes from a JavaSwarm
PT> application?
There are two ways:
1) Write a file that describes the interfaces you want to export.
This file would be like space.h, analysis.h, etc. in the Swarm
distribution. E.g. a @protocol for each class in your package.
Note this requires having CREATING and USING tags to describe the
category of the methods. Then you run it through the etc/java-stub.el
elisp program which generates a .jar file and shared libraries in
the way the Java virtual machine wants to see them.
Advantage: The result is clean and to users it looks like any
other Java library.
Disadvantage: It's a non-zero amount of work to set up. The stubber
is general but the Makefiles, etc. are not set up for
casual
users. I'd be willing to help set up a tool to make
it easy, but only if people would actually use it.
(I won't do work to entertain idle curiousity.)
2) If it is just a few calls you want to make, the FArguments/FCall
interface will let you call specific Objective C methods from Java.
Advantage: It's less work to set up
Disadvantage: It's inconvenient to use in more complex situations,
since each call must be constructed at runtime via the
FCall interface.
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