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A comment on J2objc - A Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and runtime.

Re:J2objc - A Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and r... by kaio on Thursday September 13, 2012 @06:34PM (#4519006)
As interesting it may ever sound, i still can't think about good use-cases for those kinds of translation tools. I have been fiddling around a bit with XMLVM (which gives really has a nice generic approach) but the point that you basically can't use any libraries leads quickly to a dead-end. Also i'm not convinced that any automatic translation of plain business-logic could compensate the sacrifice of Obj-C features.
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Re:J2objc - A Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and r... by sitharus on Friday September 14, 2012 @06:35AM (#4521013)
In the early days of iOS I worked on a JavaME to C++ source translation tool. No idea if it was a commercial success or not, but it did have customers.

The main desire is for games - ones that just have a canvas or GL - so porting is easier. Also some companies want shared business logic.

It turned out to be a small market though, since iOS and Android took out the market it was easier to write twice than handle the fuss of porting.

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Re:J2objc - A Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and r... by lenzai on Sunday September 16, 2012 @08:11AM (#4529014)
How much time did it take you to reach the point when you could translate an average project with xmlvm ? e.g 10-30kloc
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