Re: [platform-swt-dev] Mac OS X Port

[Suhail Ahmed <ilyanov@xxxxxxx>]

My mistake. Allow me to call it JCocoa if you will. I agree with you 
about bypassing the JNI layer. Given that the question decomposes to 
where to encapsulate JCocoa calls. Should we do it in the widgets 
packages or in the internal packages by creating an aqua package.

Cheers

On Monday, November 12, 2001, at 04:29 PM, Mark Phippard wrote:

> Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't JDirect a way to make calls to 
> native
> methods on a Mac, sort of like JNI?
>
> I am suggesting that the port just bypass native methods and instead use
> the Java classes that Apple has provided.  These classes encapsulate the
> native method calls altogether, and let you just code in Java.
>
> Otherwise, one of the problems you are faced with is that I believe you 
> can
> only code the Cocoa widgets in Objective-C and there are not a lot of
> programmers that know this language.
>
> Also, back to JDirect, on OS X can't you just use JNI if you do decide 
> to
> make native calls?  I think JDirect is provided to support OS 9.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>
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> Hi
>
> It seems most folks would like to use Java bindings for Cocoa to port
> SWT. Given the JNI layer (org.eclipse.swt.internal.motif (or win32, in
> osx's case org.eclipse.swt.internal.aqua) exposes a class named OS
> encapsulating the various native calls, we would have two ways to use
> JDirect, one would be to call JDirect methods directly from the classes
> found in org.eclipse.swt.widgets package or we could maintain the
> porting layer but without using native calls from the OS class but
> instead use JDirect calls. Any thoughts on this?
>
> Cheers
>
>
> On Monday, November 12, 2001, at 03:49 PM, Mark Phippard wrote:
>
> > I just want to add my vote for a Mac OS X port.
> >
> > With its BSD underpinnings and easy to use UI, I think that OS X has 
> > the
> > potential to become very popular among developers and it deserves
> > consideration as a supported Eclipse platform.
> >
> > OS X comes with a set of Java classes that wrapper their native Cocoa
> > widgets.
> >
> > This URL has everything you need to know about Cocoa:
> >
> > http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/CocoaTopics.html
> >
> > A couple of links off of that URL are to the docs for the Java classes:
> http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/
> > Java/AppKitTOC.html
> http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Java/
> > FoundationTOC.html
> >
> > I do not have the right background to assist much in the programmin
> > effort,
> > but I am certainly willing to help in testing.
> >
> > Every copy of OS X has Java 1.3 with Hotspot VM.
> >
> > If anyone knows of some good Mac development forums or mailing lists,
> > please post them.  I think we should go to those places to try to
> > solicit
> > some Mac programmers to come over to Eclipse and help out.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Mark Phippard
> >
> >
> >
> >
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