[armedbear-devel] new jcall / jar:file: path functions

[Alessio Stalla]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Erik Huelsmann <ehuels at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Kind of curious: Why are you not just using the jsint implementation?
>
> Well, one reason being that their implemetation requires a call to
> setAccessible() which is defined to be allowed to raise a security
> exception. The method Alessio implemented (and I figured out long ago
> in order to implement USOCKET on ABCL) doesn't have that drawback.
> When this strategy can't work, well, I guess we'll need to revisit and
> go the security exception route.
>
>> It's been in use for quite a while and it would certainly make my life
>> easier to be able to continue to use that interface. For example, I
>> use their findMethod implementation to get a method so I can optimize
>> certain loops by avoiding dynamic lookup each time.
>
> Right. We want to start doing caching like that too, based on the
> object class, method name and the argument classes. That would be what
> you need, right?

Right now we already have a non-caching findMethod, but it's not
publicly exposed outside Java.java. Do you think it would be useful to
provide it as part of the Java FFI?