Re: JAVA in Gnome?

[Jens Lautenbacher <jens tellux de>]

Bertrand Guiheneuf <Bertrand.Guiheneuf@inria.fr> writes:

> bboule@xylogics.com said:
> // 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.
>
> That what every IHM professional say either.

The pre Swing AWT? I doubt that.
 
> // If we really want to use it though, it's probably better to go with
> // guavac than with a JVM though.  How hard would it be to put some hooks
> //  into guavac to people to call any methods it needs to communicate
> // with  other Gnome apps, panel, etc?  (And how mature is guavac?)
>
> I might not understanding what you're saying but guavac is only a
> java->bytecode compiler. You still need a jvm to run the apps.
> Were you thinking of a java->C compiler?

You may be right. There is no need for a VM included into Gnome for
reasons stated above.

	jtl