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

[Thomas Zander]

On Tuesday 14 June 2005 16:50, Richard Dale wrote:
> 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..

What Martijn said is about all I also know about how to go about it; and 
my ideas on this means its probably going to be a waste of time to do 
anything like this for kde 3.x.  I'd like to start doing stuff in KDE4.

After 5 years of only programming Java, I recently came back to C++ (and I 
hate it, a lot!) to do usability-bug-fixing in kdepim. But I need the 
experience to be able to make a KDE a better target for Java programmers.

Note that its just a goal for me, at this moment, I have a general idea on 
how to go about it but I never created bindings before.

ps. I do feel strengthened by the interrest in KDe/Java from the summer of 
code students :)

-- 
Thomas Zander
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