JNIPort 2.0 for VisualWorks, Pharo and Squeak is now available!

JNIPort is a Smalltalk library which allows Java code to be invoked from
Smalltalk. It acts as a bridge between the world of Smalltalk objects and a
Java Virtual Machine (JVM) where Java code is executing. For more
information see

    http://jniport.wikispaces.com

JNIPort 2.0 for VisualWorks can be loaded from the Cincom Public Store
Repository and from the JNIPort wiki at

    http://jniport.wikispaces.com/Downloads

JNIPort 2.0 for Pharo and Squeak is available from SqueakSource at

    http://www.squeaksource.com/JNIPort.html

and from the JNIPort wiki.

The changes from JNIPort 1.9 are:

- JNIPort can now be used in Pharo and Squeak.

- Packages have been renamed such that the can be shared between Store
  and Monticello.

- Platform specific code has been moved to separate packages to make the
  core packages portable between VisualWorks, Pharo, and Squeak.

- The much-critized _null postfix used for selectors of wrapper methods
  which don't have arguments is gone.

- A few bugs have been fixed.

Installation instructions for VisualWorks are on the JNIPort wiki,
instructions for Pharo and Squeak are on the wiki of the JNIPort project
page of SqueakSource. I strongly encourage you to read the instructions
before installing and using JNIPort.

JNIPort 2.0 has been tested with:

- VisualWorks from 7.5 to 7.8 (trent dec10.3) on Mac OS X 10.6.6 and
  Windows XP SP 3

- VisualWorks from 7.7 to 7.8 (trent dec10.3) on Ubuntu 10.04 (64bit)
  with both the 32-bit and the 64-bit VisualWorks VMs

- Squeak 4.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.6 and Windows XP SP 3

- Pharo 1.1.1 and 1.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.6 and Windows XP SP 3

Known issues:

- In Pharo 1.1.1, you may encounter an error when JNIPort tries to register
  a new Java object in an internal weak dictionary. This is a bug in Pharo's
  implementation of this collection class. I can't do anything about it. If
  you can't live with it, please upgrade to Pharo 1.2.

- JNIPort for Pharo and Squeak currently cannot be used with the Cog VM.

- Callbacks from foreign operating system threads cannot be used in Pharo
  and Squeak. The Alien foreign function interface does not yet support
  this feature. When you run the unit tests, three tests will fail because
  of this restriction. These failures are expected and do not indicate bugs.

Best regards,
Joachim Geidel