[platform-swt-dev] Mac port: Status Update

[Maurice Parker <maurice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey,

I didn't have any luck finding out what the problem with using Cocoa's
Notification Center from Java was.  At this point I am assuming it is a bug
in the JavaBridge most likely attributed to the use of NSSelector (a
reflection like mechanism).

I know how to work around this bug, but I'm not really sure that I should
try at this point.  I've posted to the cocoa-dev list twice reporting
problems with using the JavaBridge and haven't yet received a reply back
from an Apple employee.  Once I even cc'd an Apple employee who directly
involved in a thread on the JavaBridge and I still didn't receive back a
response.

Since I can't get anyone at Apple directly engaged in conversation the only
thing I can do is try to read between the lines.  It looks to me like the
JavaBridge is only lightly supported (if at all) and that development and
debugging of it is a low priority at Apple.  Since I am unaware of any large
commercial vendors using the JavaBridge, I doubt that Apple has any
incentive to improve the quality of the JavaBridge.

I think that it's time to try to bring a Carbon port up to the same level
that I brought the Cocoa port to so that we can how the two approaches
compare with each other.  I'll try to get a start on it this weekend, but if
anyone has begun already, then post back to the list so that I'm not
duplicating any effort.

-Maurice