Daniel Berlin wrote:
>On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Alexander Mueller wrote:
>
>>Ben Collins wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 11:09:27AM -0500, Kevin Galligan wrote:
>>>
>>>>Does anybody know how current the java bindings are? I got svn compiled on
>>>>my Win2k box last night and I'd like to work on some client code. Any info
>>>>would help.
>>>>
>>Its quite a long time since I worked on the java bindings (due to work
>>overload in may daytime job).
>>A lot of helper functions are working. The only command that is
>>partially implemented, is "status"
>>(org.tigris.subversion.lib.ClientImpl.status).
>>
>>I had quite a hard time because of java VM crashes when calling this
>>command. If you are interested in working on client code make sure
>>you understand the Java Native Interface. The book from sun does a good
>>job for acquiring this knowledge.
>>
>>>If Swig works for Win2k, you can hack up the swig bindings to support
>>>java.
>>>
>>There is a lot of stuff that cant be done with swig and java. Its ok to
>>get wrappers for classes. But the advanced topics like callbacks (which
>>are a main part
>>of the subversion library) wont work using swig (at least my opinion).
>>And if you want to have java naming conventions for classes and methods
>>you have to write wrapper classes with nice names that call the
>>automatically generated code.
>>
>What was the last version of swig you tried?
>Java support has been *completely* redone in SWIG very recently.
>
It was "bleeding edge" swig about two months ago.
Alex
Received on Mon Mar 25 18:23:15 2002