Re: Another one for the non-existent java Swarm FAQs

[Paul Johnson]

Sounds like TTF might be a volunteer to maintain a java faq! 

Also I collect the  little java examples marcus posts here.

http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/SwarmFaq/WorkingExampleCode/java/

So far, I have:
    ColormapDemo.java      10-Jan-00 15:33     4k  
    DivaPackageUsage.txt   28-Dec-99 12:53     3k  
    DumpDirectory.java     10-Jan-00 17:18     1k  
    EZBinDemo.txt          24-May-00 10:32     2k  
    FCallUsage.txt         10-Jan-00 17:19     3k  
    FloatingPointScheduli..09-Jun-00 15:32     3k  
    GuiSwarmImplExample.txt28-Dec-99 12:36     2k  
    ProbeNotify.txt        24-May-00 10:20     3k  
    ScheduleTest.txt       28-Dec-99 12:34     2k  
    SequenceExample.java   10-Jan-00 14:53     4k  
    TestControlPanel.java  20-Dec-99 15:43     2k  
    TestSelector.txt       16-Dec-99 14:32     1k  
    TestSelectorSwarm.txt  16-Dec-99 14:35     2k  
    TestZonePrint.java     10-Jan-00 17:16     1k  

Now, concerning this FAQ
TTF> Another good question for the FAQs would be: Where is the java
TTF> source to swarm.jar? 

I don't pretend to understand that fully, but I from reading answers in
the past I propose the answer should be something like (and will add in
FAQ's Java section after I get corrected on how to say this)

Answer. There is no java source. There is code in the Swarm library that
creates stubs through which the java native interface is able to access
the objective c methods.  The code for this is in the java directory of
the swarm-whatever.tar.gz and also it appears in other various
subdirectories where code has been changed to allow these stubs to be
created.  The things that appear as swarm-something.java in the java
directory when swarm is compiled are these stubs. From my examination of
them, it appears they are mostly documentation/comments and declarations
like so:

public native FActionForEachHomogeneous
createFActionForEachHomogeneous$call (Object target, swarm.defobj.FCall
call);



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