jni4net road-map

0.8.x versions

Any bug fixes a contributions. No major investment in the current proxygen.

0.9 version - new proxygen, new runtime

This is huge effort - till now (19/09/2011) I spent 60 man days of late night work on it. I estimate I’m in the half of it. The feature list below is a vision, not hard promise. I will publish the code into working branch once it will stabilize enough.

proxygen core

based on Unity IoC, strongly extensible
CLR reflection done via IKVM.Reflection. Therefore could read CLR 4.0 images on machine with CLR 2.0. It could also live with partial resolution of dependencies.
new code generator, ability to merge custom changes in generated java code

desired proxygen features

easier to comprehend and maintain by other people
generate nested classes, nested interfaces
handle enums, delegates, events, properties, indexers
ref parameters on interface, multidimmensional arrays
improved config file. Paths relative to config file. Wildcards for namespaces. Ability to skip method, rename it, change type of parameters.
better proxies: less warnings, less overlapping methods
produce better build files

desired runtime features

both lazy and explicit binding of the proxies. Via strong name and custom classLoader with .jar names
support for cdecl calling convention
decoupled from JDK and .NET framework proxies.
prebuild proxies for full JDK and .NET framework libraries bundled with jni4net. Multiple versions.
redesigned bridge API and setup experience, better logging
loading of the proxy classes with custom classloader by default
better optimization of marshaling
will break backward compatibility
better shutdown scenarios: detach thread, detach appdomain, unload classes, detach whole VM

1.0 version

support for generics
implicit conversions of IEnumerable, IList, IComparable etc.
inheritance from a proxy
mono support
GUI for editing the proxygen config files. Drag and drop dependenies. Choose types and methods to wrap from a tree.
documentation, more samples

Future ideas, dreams

generate XML comments for proxies