C++ GUI in Java SWT

Question

I developed a GUI application in C++. This GUI contains objects that belongs to external libraries for drawing.

What I need is to "import" this GUI into an other GUI made with Java (Eclipse). I mean I need to show this C++ GUI in a Java application.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

The easiest solution is to launch the native application from Java. That doesn't sound like what you want to do, though.

The second easiest is make your native app a library and interact with it from Java using JNI , or JNA (if you don't care about performance so much). See here . You'd redo your interface in Java (or perhaps there is a way to embed Win32 or whatever GUI framework in it, I don't know).

Also take a look at SWIG .

The hardest method would be embedding a JVM in your native application.