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Re: Alien and callbacks from "foreign" threads?

Posted by Stéphane Ducasse on Jan 05, 2011; 10:18pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Alien-and-callbacks-from-foreign-threads-tp3175989p3176552.html

JNIport is important for us. We should get a better interoperability with Java so that we can integrate instead of been rejected.
Joachin your work is ***important***.

Stef

On Jan 5, 2011, at 7:54 PM, Joachim Geidel wrote:

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> Eliot Miranda-2 wrote:
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>> That current version of Alien does /not/ support callbacks from foreign
>> threads.
>>
>
> Aah, that explains a lot. ;-)
>
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> Eliot Miranda-2 wrote:
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>> I have a prototype that does support callbacks from foreign
>> threasds and supports non-blocking callouts on arbitrary threads.
>> ...
>> Are you interested in working with this prototype code?  Pleaze let me
>> know
>> either way.   I haven't sought permission to release this code yet but I
>> would very much like to.  I think there's value to Teleplace in my
>> releasing
>> it before we release it internally because it needs pounding on to bring
>> up
>> to production quality.  If there's significant interest in this code I'll
>> ask for permission to release it and see where we go from there.
>>
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> I'm not sure how many people will actually use JNIPort in Pharo or Squeak
> and need callbacks. Yes, I am interested, but given the small amount of time
> I have available for JNIPort, it may take some time until I can do something
> with your prototype. Also, JNIPort is currently just a hobby, and I will not
> use it in any kind of production software myself. I'm not sure if this
> qualifies as significant interest. ;-)
>
> Thanks!
> Joachim
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