Lucky Green wrote:
At 21:50 4/29/96, Timothy C. May wrote:
By the way, I had a discussion at a party with several Sun folks and other Java programmers, and they agreed that external code (C, for example) could be called, even by an _applet_, if arranged. For example, various underlying graphics routines in the AWT (Alternative Window Toolkit) package are of course using underlying code written in various other languages, code that has been reasonably optimized for speed.
I understand that calling C libs from Java is possible, but the details how to go about that are still hazy to me. It is also unclear if Sun will support this dual coding as a general capability that can be used by all Java apps (don't think of Java just as downloadable applets) or require that all modules, to give an example, for a certain soon to be very relevant Java application to be written in 100% Java.
Our Navigator 3.0 release will allow java and javascript to call into plugins. Since plugins are native code, you will be able to freely mix C and Java. Of course you will have to get the user to install your plugin on their disk. --Jeff -- Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist Netscape Communication Corporation jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw Any opinions expressed above are mine.