Re: Java momentum slowing ?

[David Botton <David@Botton.com>]

I can do that in Perl too (create a "function" factory) using a linked
in native code module. The point is that there is no direct method with
in the language and as you see here, it requires another language in the
middle, in this case C.

If you notice the license included has the famous Java don't do that
clause :)

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aircraft, air traffic, aircraft navigation or aircraft communications;
or in
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Java is what java is, a C syntaxified TCL/TK.

I don't understand why people have a hard time dealing with this. It
doesn't make Java "BAD", it just means that Java is not the language /
OS killer that Sun (and not so long ago M$) would force down your throat
to believe.

The JVM has some great uses and I have used it for many cool
applications, like providing programmability to the user who can
dynamically add to the application, etc. Do to all the marketing fluff,
the JVM has become one of the best and most portable scripting engines
around.

David Botton


Hyman Rosen wrote:
> 
> lrk@pobox.com (Lance Kibblewhite) writes:
> > David Botton wrote:
> > >You have to first wrap the call in a C (or Ada for that matter) function
> > >that can be called through the JNI interface.
> >
> > Exactly correct. Thick bindings are needed, and these cannot be
> > written in Java.
> 
> Not quite correct. It's true that an interface routine must be written
> in a native language, but there is a technique available called "shared
> stubs" which allows a single interface routine to call essentially any
> native function. You can get source code and description from
> <http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/faq/jni-examples/jnistb10.tar.gz>.