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

[Matthew M. <ma...@ac...>]

Jeroen Frijters wrote:

> 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.

Fair enough - I was hoping that there might be a quick way to re-use the 
mapping stuff in IKVM, but it shouldn't be too bad to change the signature.

I might be able to come up with a solution using attributes on stub 
classes for the prototypes and mapping, but I'll need to investigate more.

Thanks for the note,
Matt.