On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 01:04:28PM +0200, Dalibor Topic wrote: > Daniel Veillard wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:40:53PM +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: > > > >>Daniel Veillard wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>>I have just started to release and package java bindings for libvirt. > >>>I have made a request for review for Fedora on the new package: > >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453119 > >>> > >>>I found the exercise rather hard, JNI is of course on the edge of the > >>>Java > >>>land, but it's hard to find good resources to look at for Java bindings > >>>in Fedora, the gnome-java stuff seems very specific, and a lot of > >>>packages > >>>basically rely on gcj for compilation of any JNI stuff. > >>> > >>you may look into jna. gstreamer-java use it. it's much simpler, easier > >>then jni without the above problems. > >> > > > > Well back in 97 we tried to avoid JNI in the Kaffe project, the > >alternative was more elegant, easier, faster. I think everybody outside > >of java has hoped or tried to develop different bindings mechanism, > >unfortunately none prevailed, at this point I will stick with JNI, > I'll sing the praise for JNA, as it is VM-independent, so doesn't suffer > from the > problem most other (usually vm-specific) JNI-replacements do. haha, well you're obviously in a good position to sing that song now :) Looking at the example, yes this looks way nicer, but having that JNI code now I'm not sure I want to rewrite the thing. One interesting thing in my case is that JNA is compatible up to 1.4 while our bindings are restricted to 1.5+ since they use enums (currently this just mean I can't compile with gcj in the RHEL releases, but that's a point in JNA favour) cheers, Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ -- fedora-devel-java-list mailing list fedora-devel-java-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-java-list
