JIGS
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| shortdescription = JIGS is the Java Interface to GNUstep. | | shortdescription = JIGS is the Java Interface to GNUstep. | | ||
| - | currentversion = [ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/libs/jigs-1.5.5.tar.gz 1.5.5] | | + | currentversion = [http://www.gnustep.it/jigs/Download/jigs-1.5.7.tar.gz 1.5.7] | |
| - | releasedate = June 21, 2004 | | + | releasedate = Nov 29, 2007 | |
| license = LGPL | | license = LGPL | | ||
| overview = JIGS is a library allowing integration between Java and Objective-C. The main purpose of JIGS is to allow Java programmers to use the GNUstep libraries from Java. | | overview = JIGS is a library 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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| maintainer = * [mailto:n.pero@mi.flashnet.it Nicola Pero] | | maintainer = * [mailto:n.pero@mi.flashnet.it Nicola Pero] | | ||
| relatedlinks = | relatedlinks = | ||
| - | * [http://www.gnustep.org/experience/JIGS/Manual/index.html Online Manual] | + | * [http://www.gnustep.it/jigs/ Official Page] | |
| - | * [http://www.gnustep.org/experience/JIGS.html Official Page] | | + | |
| category = [[Category:Scripting_Frameworks]] | category = [[Category:Scripting_Frameworks]] | ||
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JIGS is the Java Interface to GNUstep.
Current Version: 1.5.7
- Released: Nov 29, 2007
- Licensed: LGPL
Overview
JIGS is a library allowing integration between Java and Objective-C. The main purpose of JIGS is to allow Java programmers to use the GNUstep libraries from Java.
Features
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.
