[fedora-java] Self Introduction - Bob Deblier

[Andrew Haley]

Bob Deblier writes:
 > 
 > I'm the author of the BeeCrypt crypto library (already in Fedora,
 > used by RPM), and as previously announced at FOSDEM 2005 in the GNU
 > Classpath developer room, currently working on reviving a Java CSP
 > which will use BeeCrypt's native routines.

Hello again.

 > What I'm looking for is advice on the best approach to integrate
 > building a CSP jar file, deriving native interface headers from
 > multiple classes, followed by compiling a C shared library with the
 > native code.

Sounds good.  This will be a once only job, will it?

 > My tentative approach is using autoconf to figure out if either gcj/gcjh
 > or javac/javah is available, generate a build.xml file for Apache Ant. I
 > have this working for Sun's JDK. Support for gcj should be easier once
 > libgcj contains javax.crypto - is this planned for 4.0?

It seems to be there.  Is there anything specific that you think might
be missing?

Andrew.