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Hello, Neil, All,

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Neil Swainston
<neil.swainston@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Did you get convincing reasons as to why the current JNI approach is
> unsatisfactory?

Have you ever tried to deploy across different platforms?

A pure Java version can easily be deployed across platforms without
change (ideally). However, if you depend on binaries, you need to
provide different ones for each platform. If a system already has the
binary installed but in a version incompatible with your software,
then you have a problem. You can still run it in a cage such as with
Java Webstart, but that is infinitely harder to deploy and debug than
just putting a pure Java application in a JAR for download.

The JNI approach also prevents you from avoiding redundancies, for
example, libSBML needs native XML support, and your application may
need Java XML support in addition to that.

Take care
Oliver

--
Oliver Ruebenacker, Computational Cell Biologist
BioPAX Integration at Virtual Cell (http://vcell.org/biopax)
Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling
http://www.oliver.curiousworld.org
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