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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Any contributions are welcome. Applications that sit on top of the
current libraries are particularly useful, since they will force us to
specify proper interfaces.

My only worry about Java is that it should work with gcj/kaffe and GNU
classpath (so one doesn't have to download the java runtime from Sun
which is not available on most Linux distros).

/Anders

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 09:03:20PM +0200, Johan Jansson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 01:48:54PM -0400, tomtzigt wrote:
> > Would there be interest in a Java-based GUI that tries to do this for
> > Fenics. If there is interest, I can give this a try.
> > 
> > Theo
> > 
> 
> Yes, definitely!
> 
> I have started (this monday) to experiment with SWIG to try to get a
> Python interface to Ko (a multibody solid mechanics component of
> Fenics I'm developing), and it would have to make interfaces to DOLFIN
> as well (meshes, coefficient functions, etc.). If you wanted to work
> on a GUI it would be a great addition, and both of us would have to
> solve some common problems. I think you also would require a
> SWIG-generated interface to similar parts of DOLFIN/FFC.
> 
> This is the first time I'm using SWIG, and I've only been coding
> Python for a few weeks, so it will take me some time before I get up
> to speed. Have you used SWIG before? It seems to be the way to go for
> this type of thing.
> 
> Most of Fenics tends to be written in C++ or Python, but I don't see a
> problem using Java for the GUI. It should be straightforward to
> interface to the Python components, and something like SWIG can
> generate interfaces for Java as well as Python.
> 
>   Johan
> 
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Anders Logg
Research Assistant Professor
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
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