Re: Is Cocoa+Java considered relevant to the list?
Re: Is Cocoa+Java considered relevant to the list?
- Subject: Re: Is Cocoa+Java considered relevant to the list?
- From: Jeff LaMarche <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 09:26:49 -0400
On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 10:45 PM, Ilan Volow wrote:
There's also the matter of needing SSL support and classes for PKI
stuff. I didn't really get a chance to see whether Foundation had
objective-c classes for these, as the regular expression issue was a
major deal-breaker. I really wish Apple would add a
NSRegularExpression class to the Foundation API.
I'll second your vote for NSRegularExpression, but I don't think it
needs to be a deal breaker for using Cocoa (I don't know anything about
Python, but it seems like you gave up on that option rather quickly as
well). I'm not convinced your choice of Java is truly Hobson's choice.
I can think of a couple of ways: AGRegEx
(
http://sourceforge.net/projects/agkit) which is alpha, but works
pretty well, as the underlying engine (pcre) is very stable. MOKit,
which you've mentioned. Using pcre or the gnu C regular expression
classes (remember, objective-C _IS_ C), using the Java bridge, or using
NSTask with standard unix command line tools such as sed and awk.
For Python, I assume it has regular expression support, since you used
it originally.
Which brings me to Java, which does have regular expressions and has a
fairly substantial set of classes for security stuff. I'm not very
fond of Java, but it has everything I need and all the other solutions
don't. This is my rational for using Java. Anyhow, I'm glad to know
that this is a place where I can post my Java+Cocoa question. I'll put
it up in the next day or two.
Well, you sound intent on using it. CocoaJava is the right choice for
some people on some projects and I don't want to knock it, but you
don't sound thrilled with the choice, so maybe it's the wrong choice
for you...
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