Re: Prayer Time in Java

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Mohammed Yousif <mhdyousif at gmx dot net> wrote:
> On Thursday 03 June 2004 10:14, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> >
> > We can import it (given the license, etc are all in order) but we'd like
> > to make sure that people are using ITL as a _library_ and are not simply
> > porting the C code to their favorite application language (PHP, Java,
> > perl, python, etc).  I'm not very familiar with Java per se, but this
> > issue (brought-up not too long ago with regard to PHP :-) seems to be a
> > pretty fundamental one.  The new imported code (if/when) will require a
> > maintainer.
> 
>   This is possible by using native interfaces, (I can do that if you want).
>   But that would really kill one of the main reasons one might one to
>   use Java for in the first place, portability. (even if the library is
>   portable, it still needs to be compiled)

True - you've made me stare :-)  Not sure what to say as I'm pondering if
all "interesting" library are indeed ported to Java (for instance) or if
there is a happy medium somewhere.

Salam.

 - Nadim


	
		
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