Re: [xmlvm-users] Implementing new class in Objective-C

[Panayotis K. <pan...@pa...>]

On Nov 30, 2010, at 8:18 PM, Arno Puder wrote:

> 
> the preferred way is to do as much as possible in Java and then 
> cross-compile to Objective-C. If you already have an Objective-C class 
> that you want to expose in Java, you need to create a Java stub and then 
> write some "glue" code in Objective-C that bridges the Java API to the 
> Objective-C API. This is necessary because of the certain differences 
> between the languages. E.g., we have to use name mangling when 
> cross-compiling from Java to Objective-C and the "glue" code needs to do 
> a mapping from the mangled version of a name to the original version. 

You can also take advantage of the "plugin" mechanism.
To see a demo of this convenient way, have a look at the directory
demo/iphome/plugins/Zip