RE: [Java-gnome-developer] win32

[Jeffrey M. <Jef...@Br...>]

> a couple of quick questions i couldn't find in the faq:
> 
> is java-gnome available on win32?  (is there somewhere i can 
> pick up a drop?)

It should be possible to compile java-gtk on the Windows
platform.  GTK does have a windows port and java-gnome
does not use any platform specific code in our native
jni layer.  As far as I know this has never been attempted.
If you are interested in trying this I would be happy to
provide support.

> how mature is the java GTK binding? (could one ship a product 
> on it in the next year?)

Currently java-gnome is undergoing a major rewrite.  I expect
it will take at least 2 additional months to completely stablize
the code, update the examples and documentation and perform
all necessary testing to have a high quality release.  At that 
point we will have very solid wrappers around all of the gtk
and gnome widgets and utility classes.  From that point I intend
to have more frequent releases that will primarily address changes
to the underlying libs and continue to build out higher level
classes to fill-in-the-blanks that exist in the C libraries.
To answer your question, java-gnome is currently not stable enough
to consider for production applications.  This situation will be
different six months from now.

-Jeff