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Re: [platform-swt-dev] Re: Mac port: Status Update
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Hey,
>When I read through the Cocoa docs, I see two things: the Java Frameworks
>(Application Kit and Foundation) and the Java Bridge.
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>As I understand it, the Frameworks are a complete implementation of Cocoa
>represented as Java classes.
Not true. You access the real Cocoa API's by using the Java Bridge. There
is no pure Java version of the Cocoa API's.
>The Java Bridge is a technique you could use to access your own
Objective-C
>classes from Java, sort of like JNI. So, unless you were going to write
>some Obj-C code, you would not be using the Java Bridge.
You use the Java Bridge everytime you access an Obj-C object from Java. In
our case this would be everytime that we use a Cocoa API.
>You frequently refer to the Java Bridge, so is the issue, that the Java
>frameworks use the bridge internally as a way to call the existing Obj-C
>frameworks or are you actually using the bridge yourself?
I'm not using any custom Java Bridge mappings, just the ones provided by
Apple.
-Maurice
