[fedora-java] libvirt-java bindings

[Daniel Veillard]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:40:53PM +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >  Hi,
> >
> >I have just started to release and package java bindings for libvirt.
> >I have made a request for review for Fedora on the new package:
> >  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453119
> >
> >I found the exercise rather hard, JNI is of course on the edge of the Java
> >land, but it's hard to find good resources to look at for Java bindings
> >in Fedora, the gnome-java stuff seems very specific, and a lot of packages
> >basically rely on gcj for compilation of any JNI stuff.
> 
> you may look into jna. gstreamer-java use it. it's much simpler, easier 
> then jni without the above problems.

  Well back in 97 we tried to avoid JNI in the Kaffe project, the 
alternative was more elegant, easier, faster. I think everybody outside
of java has hoped or tried to develop different bindings mechanism,
unfortunately none prevailed, at this point I will stick with JNI,

  thanks :-)

Daniel

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