Hi Calus,

Claus Spitzer wrote:

>Greetings!
>I am implementing a Java VM in Squeak, and am trying to figure out how
>to represent Java concepts in Smalltalk.
>
>  
>
If you're trying to reimplement Java on-top of Squeak then you don't 
need to worry about metaclasses.
For every concept in Java just implement a class. You'll probably need 
to have a class for representing java.lang.Class. But, actually, this 
not not a true metaclass. Or, at least it does not need to be implemented
so... You only need to provide somehow (class instance variable)  the 
same instance of java.lang.Class as the answer when the message 
getClass() is sent to instances of a same class.

Instances of java.lang.Class should point to application classes to 
allow introspection and instance creation.

Noury
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Ecole des Mines de Douai - Dept. G.I.P
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