RE: CERTI Java-binding ?; Was: [certi-dev] certi performance comparison

[Gotthard,Petr]

> > I think this is the best way to do HLA  bindings to 
> different languages.
> 
> Pierre will be glad to ear you :=)
> The only trouble here is that the Java Federate has to launch 
> a native executable (RTIA). So Java Federate depends on a 
> RTIA running on the targeted platform.

To me this doesn't matter. There is always some platform and I have to
compile the RTIG anyway. (Unless you want to have Java RTIG as well. But
this leads us to Portico.)

> We discuss the fact that we may implement RTIA in java too, 
> this way the Federate is 100% java and RTIA in java may be 
> java thread with potentially better performance than
> (TCP) socket communication with the C++ RTIA.

But even the C++ federates communicate with RTIA via socket.

> The conclusion was that implementing RTIA in java is not an 
> easy task, so we started with a "simple" libRTI in java.

Implementing a new RTIA would duplicate the effort: all RTIA
extensions/bugfixes would have to be implemented twice. 

Petr