[Kde-java] Re: GCJ (Re: Build system for KDE4)

[Richard Dale]

On Tuesday 14 June 2005 17:00, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> Richard Dale said:
> > I'm too busy with ruby recently to do anything with java, but we really
> > need to make more effort. If lots of people start using the java
> > bindings I'll fix any problems they come up with. I'm not really an
> > autotools expert, but somebody from Redhat or similar should sort out
> > getting the java bindings working with KDE. Java-Gnome seems similarly
> > under-resourced from what I've read, and depending on about one guy.
>
> What exactly is needed? Can I start creating tests for KExtProcess (a C++
> lib) in Java and just add footest.java to the make check targets, or is
> more needed? I really don't know where Java support is right now and what
> is still missing, I only started looking into it a couple of days ago, and
> my time is *really* limited atm.
>
> All I know is that interest is increasing -- me, Boudewijn, Thomas Zander,
> and more all want to have more solid Java support through CNI bindings
> with gcj.
Oh, this is really good news. With the Summer of Coding Google competition 
about two thirds of the entries have been for Qt/KDE java. So lets coordinate 
to try and make it take off..

-- Richard