[Xapian-discuss] Status of the java-swig bindings?

[Jarrod Roberson]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 03:02:54PM -0400, Jarrod Roberson wrote:
> > I just get the latest version of Xapian 1.2.2 and see that the Java
> bindings
> > still aren't in a package.
> > Do these work?
>
> I updated the filelist recently, so they build for me.  The testsuite (run
> with "cd java-swig" and "make check") fails to compile the tests of
> subclassing
> of MatchDecider and ExpandDecider for me.
>
> I don't use them myself, so I don't know how well they currently work.
> Patches to improve them are certainly welcome.  It would be nice to be able
> to retire the old hand-coded JNI bindings.
>
> > I am trying to hack them into a package but I can't find
> > where the actual swig -java command is being executed from to add the
> > -package command.
>
> java-swig/Makefile.am
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>

well until they are succesfully built into a package structure they are
pretty un-usable because of the name conflicts with everything else called
"Database" for example.
I will try again and see what I can accomplish.

Thanks for the pointers

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Jarrod Roberson
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