J2ObjC VS Smooks

Compare J2ObjC vs Smooks and see what are their differences.

J2ObjC

A Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and runtime. (by google)

Smooks

Extensible data integration Java framework for building XML and non-XML fragment-based applications (by smooks)
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J2ObjC Smooks
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5,982 384
0.1% 1.3%
9.1 9.2
4 days ago 5 days ago
Java Java
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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J2ObjC

Posts with mentions or reviews of J2ObjC. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-09.
  • Java to Objective-C Translator and Runtime
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2024
  • Microsoft begins “Extinguish” phase of dealing with Open Source
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jul 2022
    >> What is Java's equivalent of Xamarin or Avalonia?

    Xamarin - RoboVM was a Java-based competitor to Xamarin which Xamarin acquired in 2015, but it was shutdown in 2017 after Microsoft acquired Xamarin. There are some Java-based toolkits such as https://www.codenameone.com/ that target mobile, but they are probably not as well funded as Xamarin has been under Microsoft. From what I hear Xamarin will be deprecated and replaced by MAUI.

    Avalonia - Java has had multiplatform windowing for much longer than C# has. The Java Swing toolkit has been part of Java for more than a decade and is still supported in OpenJDK. JavaFX (https://openjfx.io/) is a newer toolkit that was originally part of Java and was later spun out into its own project.

    How well are Xamarin and Avalonia supported if you are doing C# development on Mac or Linux?

    >> How do I run Java on iOS?

    As stated above, some tools such as https://www.codenameone.com/ and https://github.com/google/j2objc that convert Java code to target iOS.

    I have never tried using those tools so I am not sure how good they are.

Smooks

Posts with mentions or reviews of Smooks. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Smooks yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing J2ObjC and Smooks you can also consider the following projects:

Codename One - Cross-platform framework for building truly native mobile apps with Java or Kotlin. Write Once Run Anywhere support for iOS, Android, Desktop & Web.

OpenRefine - OpenRefine is a free, open source power tool for working with messy data and improving it

LightAdmin - [PoC] Pluggable CRUD UI library for Java web applications

Modern Java - A Guide to Java 8 - Modern Java - A Guide to Java 8

Multi-OS Engine - Multi-OS Engine: Create iOS Apps in Java (or Kotlin ... etc.)

Design Patterns - Design patterns implemented in Java

CQEngine - Ultra-fast SQL-like queries on Java collections

JBake - Java based open source static site/blog generator for developers & designers.

Maven Wrapper - The easiest way to integrate Maven into your project!

javaslang-circuitbreaker - Resilience4j is a fault tolerance library designed for Java8 and functional programming