Category: Proxy usage

Let's first discuss how array types differ between the two languages.

You have to use the generated or supplied array proxy type and use parentheses rather than square brackets in the instantiation, for example:

StringArray     arr = new StringArray( 16 );

arr[ 0 ] = "first";
arr[ 15 ] = "last";

.NET proxy types for Java array types are not .NET array types. In .NET you cannot generate any compilable source code that extend the .NET Array type. Consequently, our proxy array types just behave mostly like .NET arrays without being .NET array types.

There is an explicit conversion path between an instance of a .NET array of the type and the corresponding Java array type, i.e. string[] and StringArray:

string          narr[] = new string[] { "1", "2", "3" };
StringArray     arr = narr;

The mapping between Java and .NET proxy array types is fairly straightforward:
 

Java type	.NET proxy type
boolean[ ]	Codemesh.JuggerNET.boolArray
byte[ ]	Codemesh.JuggerNET.byteArray
char[ ]	Codemesh.JuggerNET.charArray
double[ ]	Codemesh.JuggerNET.doubleArray
float[ ]	Codemesh.JuggerNET.floatArray
int[ ]	Codemesh.JuggerNET.intArray
long[ ]	Codemesh.JuggerNET.longArray
short[ ]	Codemesh.JuggerNET.shortArray
java.lang.Object[ ]	Java.Lang..ObjectArray
java.lang.Object[ ][ ]	Java.Lang.ObjectArrayArray
Foo[ ][ ][ ]	FooArrayArrayArray

 
The primitive array types are provided as part of the runtime library; the object array types are provided via proxy types that follow an obvious naming policy.