I know that I'm particularly exhausted right now (and have been all week) due to the wealth of topics and technologies I'm investigating out of personal and professional interest. But really now, why is it damn near impossible to find a Bluetooth dongle in Toronto - and why is JNI so straightforward to understand, but such a bloody pain to use.
Here I am, with all my C or C++ experience based in a command line Unix environment, trying to figure out how to compile a project into a library (or simply compile it in the first place) in Visual Studio .NET - hah.
I even installed cygwin to use gcc. It's not quite right when the only JNI headers I have are win32 and I want to produce a windows based end product anyway.
So back to JNI, my arse hurts from it, there's a million examples of how lovely it is for loading native libs and running code from them. whoopideedo. I've done that before, anyone can. I want to use Java from a C++ windows program. With my scratchy remants of memories of C syntax, and a pained approach to windows in general - it's rough.
My only hope is that Jace is going to 1. make it easier, and 2. teach me about C++ a little..
"Jace is a toolkit designed to make it easy to write JNI-based programs. Jace consists of a C++ runtime library, and a set of tools written in Java. Because Jace is not a framework, it leaves all possible options open to the developer. "
Sounds good.. but until it becomes my bitch, I don't believe the hype.
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