[4385] in java-interest
Re: java-interest-digest V1 #24
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David J Dawkins)
Thu Dec 21 14:30:27 1995
From: David J Dawkins <davidd@isl.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 95 17:09:18 GMT
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
> But has anbybody thought about a c2java compiler ??? I really thing this
> would be usefull. Many people has developed libraries of classes in C++, and
> one of the reasons why they don't move to java is because they cannot re-use
> them (native methods only in C !!!).
>
> If there was a c2java compiler everybody could have their libraries in java
> with all its advantages. And I believe that this would be much better than
> native methods with C++ (the day we have that)
>
> This is only an idea ... I cannot develop it :-( I'm already too busy with
> my job and with the Mud in Java :-)
Neither would you want to, surely. The solution as I see it is to enable
Java to call externally compiled functions (whether they are in C, C++ or
whatever). Why would you want to throw away your initial development costs?
Can Java call external object code (say, the XView/Motif libraries) ?
Dave Dawkins
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