Qt-interest Archive, August 2003
Just wondering about Qt-Java bindings
Message 1 in thread
Hello,
I seen a few things on the net searching around regarding a Qt-Java bindings
project (Koala), and got the impression that the project has stalled
somewhat.
Does anyone know about the status of this or any other Qt-Java bindings
available?
Thanks,
Jeff
Message 2 in thread
On Monday 25 August 2003 22:03, Jeff McLean wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I seen a few things on the net searching around regarding a Qt-Java
> bindings project (Koala), and got the impression that the project has
> stalled somewhat.
No, not at all! The project is currently in a high state of activity - the
bindings are being re-written as a 'SMOKE adaptor' - ie they will interface
to the language independent bindings runtime that is part of the KDE project.
It will use java dynamic proxies, and dynamic method overloading resolution,
rather than large scale use of JNI with static C++ calls as before.
> Does anyone know about the status of this or any other Qt-Java bindings
> available?
The old JNI based bindings work fine, they are still in the KDE cvs in
kdebindings/qtjava and build against the current Qt libs. The new bindings
are due for release as part of KDE 3.2 (along with QtRuby ruby bindings).
The only real change to existing QtJava programs will be that the package name
will change from 'org.kde.qt.*' to 'qt.*', and the KDE libs will map onto
several java packages according to their C++ namespace, rather than just a
single giant package as at present.
-- Richard
