[Metakit] Starting work on a Java version of Metakit

[Brian Kelley]

This will be an interesting exercise.  I'm happy to donate some swig
wrappers to the cause to compare with testing.  I have found that
well-written python and the C++ extension is not too much slower than
the corresponding C++ code, FYI.

I recently have been working on Swig wrappers as a binding tool and
can start testing them with Java.  They have some really nice features
but end up being fairly non-pythonic and non-java like.

Java has a particular problem in that the jar files end up having to
be signed and are not platform specific yada-yada.  But this does
allow direct access to the C++ api in all supported languages. 
(Perl/Ruby/Lisp/Guile/Java...)  The big problem is that they feel like
you are using C++.  Python has a better schema for distributing
extensions written in C/C++ but it still requires compilation and the
like.

I imagine you will be fairly successful in writing a java metakit
reader but have some trouble with making the writers, good luck with
this by the way.

And jcw, could I see the python only reader please, please :)

Brian