https://github.com/gnustep/libs-java

JIGS stands for Java Interface for GnuStep. It is a package allowing integration between Java and Objective-C. The main purpose of JIGS is to allow Java programmers to use the GNUstep libraries from Java.
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JIGS stands for Java Interface for GnuStep. It is a package allowing integration between Java and Objective-C. The main purpose of JIGS is to allow Java programmers to use the GNUstep libraries from Java.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gnustep/libs-java
• Owner: gnustep
• License: lgpl-2.1
• Created: 2014-08-09T07:23:47.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-06-11T22:37:55.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-12T04:27:36.298Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Language: Objective-C
• Homepage: http://www.gnustep.org
• Size: 1.81 MB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • Changelog: ChangeLog
  • License: COPYING.LIB

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README

        
What is JIGS ?

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JIGS stands for Java Interface for GnuStep. It is a package allowing

integration between Java and Objective-C. The main purpose of JIGS is

to allow Java programmers to use the GNUstep libraries from Java.

JIGS is more than a set of bindings for GNUstep from Java; JIGS takes

advantage of the fact that Objective-C and Java are very similar

languages to make it possible to use Objective-C classes from Java

using exactly the same API (and vice versa). You have to learn the

GNUstep API only once, and then you can use it both from Objective-C

and from Java in the same way! Moreover, JIGS can generate

automatically wrappers for your own Objective-C GNUstep libraries.

JIGS allows you to write optimized classes and components in

Objective-C, and make them available to Java developers. In the

typical configuration, fast Objective-C components and libraries are

used in the backend, and JIGS is used to integrate them smoothly in a

Java front-end. Moving from one language to the other is as easy as it

can possibly be with two different languages.

JIGS is free software and part of the GNU project, freely available

from the Free Software Foundation under the GNU LGPL license.

Authors

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JIGS was brought to you by Nicola Pero 

Brainstorm Computer Solutions (http://www.brainstorm.co.uk) funded

most of the development of JIGS.

SKYRiX Software AG (http://www.skyrix.de) funded most of the

developments of JIGS 1.3.x and 1.4.x, including number object

morphing, libFoundation support, and other improvements.

Maintainers

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JIGS is currently maintained by Nicola Pero .

Software Needed to Use JIGS

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To use the JIGS, you need: 

  * A version of the Objective-C runtime library compiled as a shared

  library (and working with GNUstep).  Please refer to the INSTALL

  file for more information on how to compile and install it.  This is

  needed only to load objective-C libraries into a running java

  virtual machine, while you don't need it to start a java virtual

  machine inside an already running objective-C app or tool.  Please

  note that there are no examples yet of doing the latter in JIGS 

  though, so if you want to play comfortably, getting a shared

  Objective-C runtime library is recommended.

  * GNUstep make package and base library.

  * A java development environment supporting JNI 1.2.

Special Thanks

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To Richard Frith-Macdonald  for countless

discussions and help during development of JIGS 0.1.

Obtaining JIGS

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JIGS is available at http://www.gnustep.it/jigs/Download/

New releases and snapshots can usually be found on the JIGS homepage, 

http://www.gnustep.it/jigs/.

You may always get the latest version of JIGS from the GNUstep CVS -

the module is called 'java'.

Bug Reports

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The best way to submit bug reports and fixes is to email them to 

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