Re: Using gcj as an extension language

[Andy Tai <atai at atai dot org>]

Thanks for the information!  I will try gcj out for my
application.

The reason I want the "main" function in C (instead of
writting the main body in Java) is that I want to be
able to control system-level initializations (for
example, using the C++ ACE/TAO library for server
applications). Also I may also want to embed other
languages like Scheme or Python.

Thanks for this excellent Free Software!

Andy

--- Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "Andy" == Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> writes:
> 
> Andy> Hi, this is just a general question about
> gcj... How well can
> Andy> gcj be used as an extension language, in the
> sense of guile?
> 
> Fairly well, though this isn't the usual approach. 
> Ordinarily you'd
> write your main program in java and have a bunch of
> C support
> libraries with java wrappers.
> 
> Still, you can use the JNI invocation API to drive
> libgcj.
> 
> 
> I'm pretty interested in helping people write GUI
> applications using
> gcj.  We still haven't found our "killer app".
> 
> Tom