I like your description of what it is IKVM does exactly, however I can’t help but feel like there is too much room for interpretation of what reverse engineering is to begin with.

There is also the issue of redistribution of the dll’s (for C) and the jar’s (for java). Seeing as how we would effectively remove both of those issues from the equation, we open our selves up further because there would be nowhere else reasonably for our end users to obtain these DLL’s except to run IKVM themselves which seems pretty unruly.

The alternative is we distribute those new IKVM-generated DLL’s ourselves, but that seems it would be a HUGE point of contention with ESRI also per the EULA.

It is too bad because this has a lot of potential to be really helpful..

What really stinks is I believe this is likely a direct violation of the EULA so chances are you can’t make a commercial product utilizing it. Too bad

That is, unless you have a differing perspective on that. I think it falls into the realm of reverse engineering but if I was wrong on that I’d be a lot more happy.

Still, very cool stuff!

“When running .NET applications in Windows that use IKVM dll’s, the .NET framework must be able to locate the dll’s. It looks in the Global Assembly Cache, then in the current directory. If you want to be able to do development without having the dll’s in the current directory, you must install them in the Global Assembly Cache. To do this in Windows, access the Microsoft .NET Framework Configuration item in the Windows Control Panel, and add the assemblies to the Assembly Cache. At a minimum, you will want to install the IKVM.OpenJDK.ClassLibrary.dll and IKVM.Runtime.dll.”

Thanks,
Nelson

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