Re: JAVA in Gnome?

[Jens Lautenbacher <jens tellux de>]

"Ben R. Boule" <bboule@xylogics.com> writes:

> > You don't need to include a Virtual Machine or Compiler. What you need
> > for a "gnome compatible language" is the language specific glue code
> > (In the case of JAVA this woud be a native funktion interface I think
> > and a bunch of classes)
> 
> I think that it would be really fantastic if Gnome could be programmed in 
> Java.  I know it's a point of contention for a lot of people, but I think 
> Java is a great language to program GUI apps in, and the AWT ranks very 
> high on my list of "Quality" Gui toolkits.

Gnome isn't programmed in "one" language. You can use Java for Gnome
apps if anyone writes the neccessary glue code. And for sure people
will not want to be forced to use Java or the AWT exclusively.
 
	jtl