[480] in java-interest
Re: Java on OpenDoc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Purcell)
Fri Jun 23 17:20:40 1995
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 13:48:33 -0700
To: edanuff@protagonist.com (Ed Anuff)
From: kevinpu@attachmate.com (Kevin Purcell)
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
Ed Anuff said:
>There is a distinction between scripting from an automation standpoint (ie.
>sending messages to the OpenDoc part) and programming the part itself.
Agreed. I was thinking in terms of Java been a cross-platform scripting
language, an OSA-compliant language.
>While you might use AppleScript to control an OpenDoc part, the part itself
>would be written in a SOM compatible language (right now probably C/C++).
>You're right that scripting for OpenDoc will probably always be the domain
>of languages like AppleScript, Rexx, or VB.
True
>Where things start to get
>exciting is if it becomes possible to write OpenDoc parts in Java (or like
>in my original post, wrap the Applet in an OpenDoc part) because then you
>can combine the cross-platform UI of OpenDoc with the crossplatform code of
>Java.
I see what you are saying.
The former case you need to build a direct-to-SOM Java compiler to avoid
fiddling with the *.idl files.
The latter case is essentially a HotJava broswer part i.e. if you were
decomposing the HotJava brwoser into parts you would certainly have one of
these.
And if you have the former you can do the latter using the HotJava source
code with a bit of effort! Now there's an interesting project.
>Anyway, I think we're both in agreement that the sooner the Mac version is
>ready, the better.
Certainly. The sooner the better.
Kevin Purcell // kevinpu@attachmate.com // xenolith@halcyon.com
Organiser of Seattle's Macintosh dBug Developer SIG (send email for info)
"OpenDoc: components made easy"
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