RE: [Ikvm-developers] Changing the external signature of a Java class?

[Jeroen F. <je...@su...>]

Matthew Mastracci wrote:
> Would it be possible to change to external signature of an=20
> IKVM-compiled Java class?

It would be possible, but I'm skeptical of the benefits of such an
approach. While the API would superficially look a little more like a
.NET API, it still wouldn't be (e.g. the disposable types wouldn't
implement IDisposable). You would also have to rewrite/convert all the
API documentation.

Also, I don't really want to add non-crucial functionality to the core.
If you really wanted to pursue this avenue, a possibility would be to
actually modify the .NET assembly in a post-processing step. For
example, ildasm the assembly, do some text processing and ilasm it
again. Or alternatively, use a managed PE reading/writing library such
as PEAPI to post-process the assembly.

Regards,
Jeroen