Re: [Java-gnome-developer] gnome-gcj

[Paul G. <pau...@bi...>]

Adrian Vance Custer wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Good of you to resurrect this project. Since I haven't heard reference to
> another similar project, i'm bringing it to everyone's attention to be sure
> that you are not duplicating efforts. If both projects are to continue, please
> mention your reasoning in the FAQ.
> ...
> If these
> projects overlap as much as I think they do, they could effectively be
> combined. If you  alreadly knew about gnome-gcj, then ingnore this.

Given the technologies they are aiming at (one is compiled Java, the
other interpreted; one uses CNI, the other JNI, etc.), it may be a
little difficult to combine the projects, but as a developer i'd be very
interested in seeing some co-operation between the projects such that
they have the same Java API.

If that were the case, i could do my prototyping in interpreted Java
(jikes is _so_ much faster than any other compiler!  :-) and then switch
to compiled for the final application where the platform permitted it. 
That would be very cool.

Paul
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