From kde-java Fri Apr 16 03:18:13 2004 From: Richard Dale Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 03:18:13 +0000 To: kde-java Subject: Re: [Kde-java] Should we ditch support for Sun's JDK in favour of Message-Id: <200404160418.13192.Richard_Dale () tipitina ! demon ! co ! uk> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-java&m=108208547332194 On Thursday 15 April 2004 22:16, Adrian Petru Dimulescu wrote: > On Thursday 15 April 2004 20:37, Richard Dale wrote: > > Lets all move to gcj, what is the point of supporting Sun's stuff unless > > we're paid - we don't need them? > > I am not very sure it would still be possible to use Eclipse in order to > develop KDEJava apps. That may render KDEJava less attractive to some > people (me included :) OK - I'm only really talking about version 2 of the bindings for KDE 3.3, not the current version. It was just seeing that the jdk on LinuxPPC was probably dead and stuck on jdk 1.3.1 - it hit a bit of a raw nerve with me. What I'm am I supposed to do to make WORA work for Sun, buy an Intel box? I've been looking at java-gnome today, and as far as I can see even the current Qt/KDE bindings are on a different scale. I counted 3600 native methods vs. 23000 in Qt/KDE, and it doesn't even appear to have any sort of runtime for keeping track of java instances mapping onto their corresponding C++ instances and so on. > Otherwise, I think tighter integration with gcj can only help, especially > at autotools level. From my point of view, developing with the JDK runtime > and distributing the compiled binaries would be ideal -- that is, until an > opensource jdk becomes standard part of any distribution. It's an efficiency/development time thing, I think CNI/gcj is much better for a large C++ integration project, like the KDE bindings, than the jdk. If you link to a large C++ library, according to Sun it isn't 'Pure Java' - they seem to want to discourage the idea. And they aren't doing anything to help develop the Gnome java bindings as you might expect they would. -- Richard _______________________________________________ Kde-java mailing list Kde-java@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-java