[xmlvm-dev] Writing Native Methods To The New C Backend & Windows Phone 7

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Hi Guys,
first let me thank you guys for the amazing work you did on this project. Its really moving along at an amazing pace, well done!

I've been looking into moving some of our code to the iPhone, we have quite allot of native iPhone code which I would like to merge with the Java porting layer we have in place. The plugin approach recommended in the past seems to be deprecated (the objc backend was always a no-go for us due to its limitations) but I'm somewhat stuck with implementing native interfaces, I'm trying to do this by example but allot of things are unclear to me...

1. Where do I put the native code? Do I just stick a native_package_class.c file and it would get picked by the build or should I do additional work?

2. I'm looking at the native methods and they have special comments within them, is this used by your parsing or just for debugging purposes? What's important to know about implementing these methods?

3. Is there a tool for generating native method stubs? So far the best I could find was removing the native keyword and running through XML VM.

4. I used the method XMLVMUtil_convertFromByteArray but I'm not 100% clear on what it does and where I should use it (besides for the purpose of extracting a string). 
How do I access Java objects such as arrays/Strings etc.?
How do I invoke a Java method from the native code? I can just type in the bytecode like the converter does or for simplification I can just call the function but would that be "correct"?

5. Are there plans to support JNI? It would be really nice since I have quite a bit of JNI code which should be pretty portable.


On a completely unrelated matter, what is the status of the Windows Phone 7 code? 
I didn't see examples of that around here and I'd like to get a leg up on that port as well, here I will probably also need access to the underlying C# API if you have any tips.


Thanks Again.
Shai.