Re: Announcing JGNAT public version 1.0p

[Geoff Bull <gbull@acenet.com.au>]

Charles Hixson wrote:
> 
> I want this to be cross-platform, so a Windows specific answer wouldn't work,
> and I don't want to need to be present and install software (i.e., I want a
> truly naive user to be able to just copy it over), so any complex set-up is
> out.
> 
> However, another user wrote me to say that ada2jvm, a part of the JGNAT package
> would do just what I was asking (or was that jvm2ada? need to check it again.).
> This will let me do the screen designs in Java, where there are tools around
> and portable libraries that will (almost always) already be installed, and the
> drive them with an Ada main program that calls the screens to get information.
> 
> (I believe that JNI would require that the Java program be the main routine,
> though I haven't checked that out in detail.)
> 


You obviously didn't check out my previous reply:

Geoff Bull wrote:
> You can use the jni binding at http://www.acenet.com.au/~gbull

All the examples provided there have the main routine written in Java.
If it were not possible to to this, it would be *very* difficult
to write a java launcher :-)

I am confused as to whether you want to compile your
Ada with gnat or jgnat.


Cheers
Geoff

Cheers
Geoff