Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 7th Dec 2007 06:25 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Jambi ships as a single Java library, or JAR (Java Archive) file, plus a handful of tools, including an interface layout and design tool, and an Eclipse plug-in. Trolltech uses its vaunted Qt C++ library as the GUI engine and puts Java wrappers around it. This approach uses the JNI (Java Native Interface) to call the necessary functions from Java. More here.
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Member since:2006-01-01
True, I guess. However, it being a runtime means that any number of "small apps" can use the same libs and therefore the argument lessens. What needs to happen is bundling ala DotNet. Love it or hate it, it is a classic example of a large runtime that doesn't seem so large after you begin installing apps to use it.
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Edited 2007-12-07 21:29
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2006-02-03
Everything good and well, not counting the fact that QT Jambi runtime libraries are around ~30MB - so you can forget about using QT Jambi to write small desktop tools.
But apart from that, it's awesome and I'm sure I'll use it some day.