[Gdal-dev] Next Generation Language Binding News

[Bill Binko]

> 
> We need developers who have expertise in their pet language's C/C++ 
> API.  For C#, this is the PINVOKE mechanism.  For Python, it is the Python 
> C API.  For Java, it is JNI.  And so on.  There is some typemap code for 
> individual languages in MapScript that might be useful as a guide.  Without 
> the typemaps, your language will be a second class citizen ... you'll have 
> primitive bindings, but you won't be able to do everything you want.  This 
> situation is still better than where you might have been before the ng 
> development -- hand-rolling bindings entirely by yourself.
> 

Howard,

I have agreed to test some of Kevin's upcoming PHP mapping, and he's sent 
me a snapshot of it.  My mapping work (which is "side-work" for me) is 
almost all in PHP, so I am looking forward to getting that working.

However, my day job is almost all Java.  While there are reasons that I 
choose PHP for side-work, I have a lot of experience with JNI and writing 
C wrappers.  (In fact, I've been doing that since I wrote this article 
about wrapping Postgres95's interface with pre-JNI Java bindings in 1996 
:)

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5535

I have no real use for the Java bindings, and I don't really want to 
take on the work of integrating them.  However, I'd like to offer my help 
to whoever takes up that gauntlet.

Bill