Re: [Sablevm-developer] Re: [kaffe] Java-Gnome: jni or cni

2004-03-11 Thread listas
Hi, > Anyone who uses the java-gnome libraries in a GUI-based Java > application is risking tying that application into GNOME. By contrast, > if they use Swing or SWT, they can easily port the application across a > wide range of supported platforms. Let me point that I can run popular GTK apps

Re: [Sablevm-developer] Re: [kaffe] Java-Gnome: jni or cni

2004-03-11 Thread Stephen Crawley
Mark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Thursday 11 March 2004 18:44, Mark Howard wrote: > > The big question is: should we switch to CNI? > > No. I agree with Chris 100%. [Or perhaps I should say 110% :-)] JNI is the standard for portably calling C / C++ from Java. It works well enough for the jo

Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Java-Gnome: jni or cni

2004-03-11 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Elias" == Elias Martenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Elias> Going CNI-only would severely limit the number of 3'rd Elias> party component you'd be able to integrate. You can mix and match CNI and JNI in a single process. This happens any time you use JNI in libgcj. Maybe you meant to sa

Re: [kaffe] Java-Gnome: jni or cni

2004-03-11 Thread Chris Gray
On Thursday 11 March 2004 18:44, Mark Howard wrote: > Dear Java Developers, > > I am writing to you on behalf of the java-gnome project for advice > regarding a major change we are currently considering. I apologise if > this is off topic for this mailing list but we really need input and you > are

Re: Java-Gnome: jni or cni

2004-03-11 Thread Anthony Green
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 09:44, Mark Howard wrote: > The big question is: should we switch to CNI? As much as I like CNI, and want to promote gcj usage, and to the extent that supporting both CNI and JNI is not an option, then I believe that java-gnome should stick with JNI. I don't believe there ar

Re: [kaffe] Java-Gnome: jni or cni

2004-03-11 Thread Per Bothner
Chris Gray wrote: On Thursday 11 March 2004 18:44, Mark Howard wrote: The big question is: should we switch to CNI? No. Though I'm obviously in the CNI "camp", I tend to agree. But I think the folloup-question is: should java-gnome switch from JNI-only implementation to some kind of dual JNI-or-C

Re: Java-Gnome: jni or cni

2004-03-11 Thread Per Bothner
I think it is a good idea to keep JNI support, but provide CNI using a hybrid approach. For example we can replace: JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_org_gnu_gnomevte_Terminal_vte_1terminal_1feed (JNIEnv *env, jclass klass, jint handle, jbyteArray data, jint length){ BODY } by: NATIVE_METHOD(org.gnu

Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Java-Gnome: jni or cni

2004-03-11 Thread Alessandro Polverini
I'm not a contributor too, but I'm a (quite experienced) java developer. I just want to subscribe everything Elias wrote on this mail, I completely agree. Thanks, Alex On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 20:04, Elias Martenson wrote: > tor 2004-03-11 klockan 18.44 skrev Mark Howard: > > Dear Java Developers,

Bug#237507: ITP: libcommons-discovery-java -- locates classes that implement a given Java interface

2004-03-11 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libcommons-discovery-java Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Richard Sitze, Craig R. McClanahan, Costin Manolache, James Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Hawthorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL

Personal - Yes (Re: Java-Gnome: jni or cni)

2004-03-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 04:44, Mark Howard wrote: > The big question is: should we switch to CNI? My experience is running through some of the java-gnome tutorials, using gcj to compile 'native executables'. I just used whatever defaults were there, and from what you say below it is currently jni. I

Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Java-Gnome: jni or cni

2004-03-11 Thread Elias Martenson
tor 2004-03-11 klockan 18.44 skrev Mark Howard: > Dear Java Developers, > > I am writing to you on behalf of the java-gnome project for advice > regarding a major change we are currently considering. I apologise if > this is off topic for this mailing list but we really need input and you > are th

Java-Gnome: jni or cni

2004-03-11 Thread Mark Howard
Dear Java Developers, I am writing to you on behalf of the java-gnome project for advice regarding a major change we are currently considering. I apologise if this is off topic for this mailing list but we really need input and you are the most knowledgeable open source java developers; it may als

Re: What is the ant-launcher.jar?

2004-03-11 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 04:56, Stefan Gybas wrote: > I'll ask the ftp admins to remove > libant1.5-java after sarge has been released so Debian packages should > start to migrate to libant1.6-java. Just a formal note, that the curren pracitce is that the apps first migrate to a newer tool, _then_

[Fw:] Describe Open Source Projects with XML

2004-03-11 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Isn't it interesting in our Meta-Package project? Describe Open Source Projects with XML, Part 1 Edd Dumbill, IBM developerWorks There are many different open source software registries: perhaps the best known and longest-running of these is Freshmeat, but there are many more, often meeting more

Re: Signal 11 running Eclipse

2004-03-11 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo Aurélien, * Aurélien Labrosse wrote: >at java.util.zip.Inflater.end(Native Method) Known and reported. See the BTS for the workarounds. I really don't know, how I can make #228599: [SUN derived JVM] crash in zip related code any clearer... Jan -- Jan Schulz [

Re: Signal 11 running Eclipse

2004-03-11 Thread Dalibor Topic
Aurélien Labrosse wrote: Hi, I have some trouble using Eclipse, on a Debian Sid. Software versions: j2sdk : 1.4.1-6 (Blackdown) eclipse: 2.1.2-1 kaffe: 1.1.4-2 * Using blackdown jvm : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ eclipse Including user settings ~/.eclipse/eclipserc... Using /home/aurelien/eclipse as de

Re: Signal 11 running Eclipse

2004-03-11 Thread Daniel Bonniot
Hi, Have you search the archives of this list? I think this was already reported... I have some trouble using Eclipse, on a Debian Sid. Software versions: j2sdk : 1.4.1-6 (Blackdown) If I remember correctly, this is specific to that JVM. You could try installing Sun's version (using j2se-packa

Signal 11 running Eclipse

2004-03-11 Thread Aurélien Labrosse
Hi, I have some trouble using Eclipse, on a Debian Sid. Software versions: j2sdk : 1.4.1-6 (Blackdown) eclipse: 2.1.2-1 kaffe: 1.1.4-2 * Using blackdown jvm : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ eclipse Including user settings ~/.eclipse/eclipserc... Using /home/aurelien/eclipse as default workspace... Using

Re: What is the ant-launcher.jar?

2004-03-11 Thread Stefan Gybas
Daniel Bonniot wrote: What is the rationale for /usr/share/ant1.X/lib ? Is it designed for plugins that would only work with a certain version of ant? Plugins should work with both versions since the API for them has not changed. The reason for /usr/share/ant1.X is that both libant1.5-java and