Re: [xmlvm-users] Changing the method naming?

[Arno P. <ar...@pu...>]

Björn Caroll wrote:
> When I started thinking about this I saw that you had developed Java 
> api's for the iPhone but the problem that I saw was that you also had to 
> develop objective c counterpart for every class. This is to translate 
> from the name+param-type methodnames, you have to use to handle 
> polymorphism. Coming from JavaME I am used to keep the size of the 
> binary down and to double every compatibility class does not seem right.
> 
> Could this naming problem be solved? I was thinking that maybe there 
> could be a parameter that tells XMLVM to not add type to the method name 
> when calling a specified package. In the case of iPhone libraries it 
> would be the default package since Objective C does not have packages. 
> What do you think of that idea?

XMLVM uses categories to extend existing Cocoa classes, so the overhead 
is minimal. In many cases it is not just a matter of delegating the 
method call in the wrapper, but there is a little more that has to be 
done (for example garbage collection or mapping from value types to 
objects).

Arno