Low-level access to Java objects - Instantiating Objects

[Roland Besserer <roland at motorola dot com>]

Hi,

maybe I'll start with a brief background on what I'm trying to 
accomplish before getting to the question I have.

I am extending our build, configuration and test system currently based 
on Guile (and customized version of greg, etc.) into the Java space. I 
have had a good experience with Jython, which allows Python scripts to 
be run in the JVM with direct access to Java objects. I plan on using 
kawa in a similar fashion. Now the question.

I have been testing with the invoke-static/invoke methods for low-level 
access to Java objects and although I can call class and instance 
methods I'm in the dark on how to instantiate a Java object from kawa.

In Jython, I can do the following:

   import javax.swing as swing            // associates java package 
with a name
   win = swing.JFrame("Hello")            // calls the JFrame constructor
   win.size = (200,200)
   win.show

Ok, that wouldn't work the same way in kawa and one would translate the 
call: win.size = (200, 200) to setSize() but the real problem I have is 
that I have not figured out how to actually construct the win object.

Could somebody enlighten me?

Regards

roland