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From: ddyer@netcom.com (Dave Dyer)
Subject: Re: Any news from Harlequin or CMU?
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Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 18:42:48 GMT
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>Yes, given the amount of development going on in Java, it is almost as
>important to have good wrapper technology for Java as for C and C++.
>This should be fairly straightforward, since functionally Java is
>close to being a Dylan subset.  However, if all you have is the Java
>byte-codes and not the sources, it will probably require some kind of
>IDL to describe the interfaces.  C++ has the same problem.
>

It's reasonably easy to parse the class file and derive the interfaces; after
all, that is what Java runtimes do.  See 
         http://www.intac.com/~robraud/classinfo.html

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