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[Miguel de Icaza]

> : It would be interesting to support the Java language as part
> : of the Mono project.
> 
>     I don't know what ideas do you have in mind. But since a lot material for
> java is already available as byte-code, it may be useful to plug-in the jilc
> (Java to IL Compiler: only for java-bytecode) somewhere as a part of Mono. (I'd
> love that)

That would be awesome!  Could you add a link to that on the web site
documents?  I just wanted to have a public statement to reduce the
questions I get on email about the issue.

>     Currently, I have the jilc on the savannah, but I am planning to move it to
> sourceforge (savannah has no stats).

Sounds good.

>     Right now I don't support java source files as such, only byte-code. Right
> now, I am stuck at the IL_code generation. Myself and Abhaya are taking care of
> this module..

Yeah.  It makes a lot of sense, because then you can use a mature Java
compiler to generate your code, and then a translator that can use the
input from any compiler.

Miguel