Re: Cocoa, Java vs. Objective-C
Re: Cocoa, Java vs. Objective-C
- Subject: Re: Cocoa, Java vs. Objective-C
- From: François Frisch <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 21:49:59 -0800
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>> I probably want to go with Objective-C!
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>> Is it possible to mix Java and Objective-C somehow, to get the Oracle
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> Sure. Just use the Java bridge.
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Ok, how well does the Java Bridge work in the latest Os X? As an
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EOF/WOF person, I'm faced with the sad realization that Java is a must
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for new EOF/WOF development; yet everyone says (and I agree) to use
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ObjC for Cocoa coding.
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Since EOF includes a desktop GUI interface (WOF is essentially the
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HTML equivalant of EOInterface), is the Java Bridge up to stuff? I
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haven't heard good news about it, and I've seen essentially "write new
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EOF/WOF in java, don't look back at what we had before" -- which
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sounds like the bridge isn't up to stuff anymore.
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Did the bridge ever get updated to work with new Java? 1.1.8 was the
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last that I saw (NT development)
I've Developed a full cocoa/java application and it wasn't hugely painful
the bridge is pretty good apart from a few problem with windows being
garbage collected while they stay in obj-c. We had to wrap the security
framework in JNI (less fun) . I believe the bridge has been rewritten and it
gave me much less headaches than in WO4.5 but then maybe I wasn't pushing it
so hard. In the desktop app as the bridge only really comes into play for
the UI. All the logic was pure java (stayed away from NSArray and the
likes). As I'm mainly a WO developer doing it Java made sense.
I'd be really interested to know how the WO/Cocoa works though. Do you know
of anyone using it?
Frangois
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