Re: [orca-list] Java applications with Orca?

[hackingKK <hackingkk gmail com>]

On Monday 25 January 2010 06:57 PM, Willie Walker wrote:
> Correct -- the Java Access Bridge for GNOME (JABG) talks to the AT-SPI infrastructure directly using the Java 
> platform bindings for CORBA.  With the Bonobo/CORBA dependency being planned for removal from GNOME projects, 
> JABG will also go away.  In it's place is a new layer known as the Java ATK Wrapper (JAW -- no pun intended).
So can it make java accessibility on swing based apps as accessible as 
the gtk apps implementing atk?
> JAW talks to the ATK layer of the AT-SPI, with the net result being that the IPC mechanism (CORBA, D-Bus, 
> etc.) will be handled by the bridge mechanism used by ATK.  With GNOME 2.28.x and earlier, ATK bridge used 
> CORBA.  For GNOME 2.30 and later, we're planning on moving to D-Bus.
>    

Using this, how stable is the current status of that project?
I am interested to try some swing based apps?
I would like to know if there are any pitfalls.


Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.