Posted by Sven Gothel on Jun 23, 2023; 8:14pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/GlueGen-Proudly-Beating-Panama-tp4042711.html

Thought I pitch in with this humble claim as some say it is pride month (chuckles)
and GlueGen got neglected in the latest overlord's endeavors.
(regardless, open for contracting and cooperation in this regard as well)

Blog post concluding our GlueGen updates.

Where are we with GlueGen?
- Still all offline, compile time, produced code for any Java VM >= 8
  - Verifiable and human readable
  - No runtime risks or 'production costs'
- Map native foreign function and native data structures to Java
- OO-Style API mapping as used in JOGL's incremental OpenGL Profile API levels
- Struct mapping reworked
  - No native code required for mappings w/o function pointer
  - Supporting most, if not all types including pointer-pointer and function-pointer
- Easy to use (produced) function and data mappings w/o obfuscating
  runtime code data and type arrangements.
- Java callback methods to receive asynchronous and off-thread native toolkit events
- Can produces JNI_OnLoad*(..) for dynamic and static libraries to resolve JNIEnv* handling via generated JVMUtil_GetJNIEnv(..)
- GlueGen also provides a comprehensive runtime library (see API doc)

Previous posts:
-  GlueGen/JNI versus Panama
   https://forum.jogamp.org/GlueGen-JNI-versus-Panama-td4042047.html

-  GlueGen Struct Generator Update *API Change* .. etc
   https://forum.jogamp.org/GlueGen-Struct-Generator-Update-API-Change-etc-td4042685.html#a4042709

Then we have talked about adding an XML frontend
next to our existing C-Header front producing the IR
(Intermediate Representation, or simply object tree/AST making up the structure
and used to produce the code -> backend).
Naturally, a Khronos XML API description is a first target,
planned to be tested with OpenGL and later with Vulkan perhaps.

Project web page
https://jogamp.org/gluegen/www/

A new document describing details (next to the older manual)
https://jogamp.org/gluegen/doc/GlueGen_Mapping.html

Git repo
https://jogamp.org/cgit/gluegen.git/about/

Git log
https://jogamp.org/cgit/gluegen.git/log/

API doc
https://jogamp.org/deployment/jogamp-next/javadoc/gluegen/javadoc/overview-summary.html

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The JogAmp project needs funding and we offer commercial support!
<https://jogamp.org/wiki/index.php?title=Maintainer_and_Contacts#Commercial_Support>

Please contact Göthel Software (Jausoft).
<https://jausoft.com/>

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Changes
- Added JavaCallback to supported features
- Aligned features w/ GlueGen intro (README, www, ..)