Tom, Some of the latest work of the SWT / compiler team involves "cross-compiling" Java to ActionScript and JavaScript. Cross-compiling to CLR might be another option that I would not rule out.
Jochen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Jochen Krause Tel: +49-721-664733-0 http://innoopract.com ============================ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Schindl Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:12 AM To: E4 developer list Subject: Re: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] E4 probably too late? [...] > b) There are many talks about UI scripting in E4. If this scripts will be a part of UI, which shall be deployed to non-Java runtime (CLR or Flash), how are you going to transpose scripts for example in Groovy to .NET or Flash environments. What other limitations will be? > E4 has not the task to translate your code into CLR. SWT will use WPF-API under the hood instead of Win32-API and the UI scripting we talk about means that the customer has Workbench-DOM (WOM) and can script the UI. There are no plans to cross-compile Groovy to JavaScript to make script run on the browser, ... . Tom -- B e s t S o l u t i o n . a t EDV Systemhaus GmbH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tom schindl leiter softwareentwicklung/CSO ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eduard-bodem-gasse 8/3 A-6020 innsbruck phone ++43 512 935834 _______________________________________________ eclipse-incubator-e4-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/eclipse-incubator-e4-dev _______________________________________________ eclipse-incubator-e4-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/eclipse-incubator-e4-dev
