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Re: Swarm and Java Applet
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Huisman G |
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Re: Swarm and Java Applet |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Mar 2001 12:08:05 +0200 (CEST) |
On 25 Mar, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
>>>>>> "GNF" == Gustavo Nucci Franco <address@hidden> writes:
>
> GNF> And thats the question: is it possible to run a Swarm
> GNF> application in an Applet extension? I have designed my own
> GNF> graphical interface to show the animation and the models
> GNF> control. But my first problem is that the java.lang cannot find
> GNF> the swarm/SwarmEnvironment class.
>
> Swarm can work in Mozilla (e.g. Netscape 6), as a XPCOM plugin. Right
> now, the only languages I've really tested in this framework are
> JavaScript and C++. For Java, there are two possibilities: 1) simply
> load the existing Java/Swarm DLLs into Mozila by using a privileged
> XPCOM startup call, and 2) use the Java XPCOM layer that Sun is
> developing. At this point, I suspect #2 would be pretty fragile and
> hard to get running -- as of a couple weeks ago it was, at least.
>
> GNF> So, I could not initialize the SwarmEnvironment as a
> GNF> java.lang.Object. Is there any alternative? Won't any other
> GNF> Swarm class work such as SwarmImpl?
>
> SwarmEnvironment, etc. are declared in /Swarm-2.1.1/share/swarm/swarm.jar
> and defined in /Swarm-2.1.1/bin/javaswarm.dll. Because there is native
> code involved, a typical Java applet isn't possible.
>
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