Hi, Simon.
Please see my comments inline.
Thanks,
Raymond
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From: "Simon Laws" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 5:15 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: AW: Apache Tuscany doubts
Hi Raymond
Nice idea. Comments in line...
If we did want to fully support C++ classes as SCA components, i.e. with
references and all the trimings then we could look to use the native
runtime
in the same domain, as opposed to in the same VM. Embedding it might be
tricky.
Yes. There are two SCA runtimes in Tuscany, one is implemented in Java and
the other in C++. But it should also be possible for the Java runtime to
host C/C++ components and vice versa.
Simon
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Raymond Feng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Can you describe the use cases you have in mind? It will help us better
understand what you want to achieve.
Are you interested in contributing in this area? I can give some pointers
and thoughts to get you started. The following is based on my
on-the-surface
thoughts.
For example, you have a C/C++ DLL which provides some business functions
and you want to use them to implement SCA components.
As the first step, you can even use implementation.java to call JNI and
you
just have to write an implementation class like:
@Service(Calculator.class)
public class JNICalculatorImpl implements Calculator {
static {
System.loadLibrary("calculator.dll");
}
public native int method calculate(String op, int n1, int n2);
@Reference
public Add addService;
}
And configure the component as:
<component name="JNICalculatorComponent">
<implementation.java class="calculator.dll"/>
</component>
Did you mean ...
<implementation.java class="JNICalculatorImpl "/>
Yes, that's what I meant. Thank you for correcting it.
For the second step, we can try to automate the JNI access as follows:
1) Model the component as implementation.jni:
<component name="JNICalculatorComponent">
<implementation.jni library="calculator.dll"/>
</component>
You also need to provide a componentType file to describe the JNI
operations (Potentially we can introspect the native C++ interface).
<componentType>
<service name="Calculator">
<interface.java interface="calculator.Calculator"/> <!-- This is
the
java interface for the JNI functions -->
</service>
<reference name="Add">
<interface.java interface="calculator.Add"/> <!-- This is the java
interface for the JNI functions -->
</service>
</componentType>
Then we can generate the JNICalculatorImpl class as illustrated above to
represent the JNI component using ASM.
This looks like a promising and straightforward idea to get dlls working
as
component implementations. In the native runtime there is a Java scagen
tool
that does C++ header file introspection. Its for generating C++ service
proxy classes but there may be some code that is of use there if there is
a
requirement to do instropection in this case
It would be great if we can introspect the C++ header file to create a
componentType for the C++ components.
Thanks,
Raymond
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From: ""Dietrich, Björn"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:45 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: AW: Apache Tuscany doubts
Hi,
We are also looking for native (JNI) binding between Java and C++,
This would be a real cool feature.
Greetings
Björn
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Malte Marquarding [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 26. Juni 2008 02:51
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: Apache Tuscany doubts
Hi,
Is there a timeline for the java runtime hosting a c++ component? We are
currently evaluating tuscany and need to access c++ components as these
are
needed for specialized algorithms.
Cheers,
Malte.
At this point, Tuscany has both Java and C++ for 1). But the java
runtime doesn't support C++ component, and not C++ runtime supports
Java component either. So we have to use different runtimes to host
the C++ and Java components at this point, but it's potentially
possible that the Java runtime will be capable of hosting C++
component.
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