An IKVM
(technology for running Java under Mono and Microsoft .NET
runtimes) update:
- The next Mono release will contain the C half of the IKVM JNI
provider and the next IKVM snapshot will contain the C# half of the
Mono JNI provider. This means that JNI will work out of the box on
Mono (for the parts of JNI that are actually implemented). Thanks
to Zoltan and Miguel for this.
- I'm planning an IKVM 0.8 release to coincide with the Mono 1.0
release.
- John Luke added IKVM support to MonoDevelop. Read about it
here
or see the screenshot here.
- I successfully started up Eclipse 3.0 M8 for the first time
yesterday. Thanks to Michael Koch for his work on GNU Classpath's
java.nio implementation and all the other GNU Classpath hackers, of
course.
- In the comments, Jesus Garcia point me to SwingWT. An SWT based
implementation of AWT and Swing by Robin Rawson-Tetley. Very cool
stuff! It doesn't run on the latest snapshot due to a JNI bug, but
I have it running and it's very cool to see the SwingSet demo running on
IKVM.
I hope to do a new snapshot in the first week of May and after
that to work towards the 0.8 release.
