[3869] in java-interest
Re[2]: Native methods in apllets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Horlock Neil)
Thu Nov 30 06:41:29 1995
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 09:31:53 +0000
From: Horlock.Neil.@.ext06lon@ft.com (Horlock Neil)
To: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
Cc: java-interest@webrunner.neato.org (java)
Hi Arthur,
I've just returned from the first Java Programming course run over here in
sunny England, which was very good as it happens. What is left (from both the
basic course and as far as I know from the advanced course (which starts in
January)) is any mention of peer interfaces and native calls associated with
this. If I am right in my belief, awt and any other libraries that have to
depend on OS specific code use the peer class to attach to external libraries,
this includes awt and I guess must include network stuff too. My question is,
are there any examples (documented) of the creation of peer libraries? The idea
is to consider the creation of a drag and drop class creating a
generic interface onto the platform specific underlying mechanism. I would
guess at tooltalk being the ideal Unix solution with OLE or DDE on Windoze and
whatever on Mac.
Any information anyone out there has on peer classes etc. would be appreciated
as it seems a fairly unexplored aspect of Java at the moment.
Neil Horlock
Financial Times Information
(horlock.neil@ft.com)
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