[xmlvm-dev] Generating Java iOS API

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

Guys,

as some of you already know, we are working on the automatic generation 
of the Java iOS API. So far, the generation of the API is a manual 
process. Needless to say that this process is sometimes inconsistent, 
error prone and does not scale. Currently XMLVM only supports a fraction 
of the complete iOS API.

Generating the Java iOS API will be a quantum leap for XMLVM. Once we 
accomplish this, XMLVM will support 100% of the iOS API. There are two 
steps to this process: (1) generating the Java API and (2) generating 
the matching C wrappers. Panayotis has just completed the first version 
of a tool for (1). Those of you who have knowledge of the iOS API - both 
Java and Objective-C - are welcomed to take a look at the generated API. 
You can do so with the following instructions:

git clone https://code.google.com/p/crossmobile/
cd crossmobile/src/xmbuild
ant skeleton

Make sure that iOS SDK 4.3 is installed. Under the folder 
build/skeleton/src you can find the produced Java files. Please take a 
look at the generated Java files and send comments/questions/suggestions 
to this mailing list.

Once we have settled on the Java API, we will work on part (2): 
automatically generating the C wrappers.

Thanks to Panayotis for writing a parser tool to generate the Java API.

Arno