Delphi Cookbook - Third Edition

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Complex classes require more work to be imported, but there are tools that can help in this hard work. Some tools available for the Delphi versions before XE8 are Java2Pas: http://www.softwareunion.lu/en/downloads/. For users of a newer version, Embarcadero released Java2OP, which does a very good job. One of the next recipes will talk about it.

These tools do a good job and help in the boring methods declaration phase; however, you cannot simply import a class and use it in your Delphi code. In many cases, you have to do additional work to arrange a good class structure in your units to get around units' circular references; however, if you are interested and want to know more, I suggest checking the good presentation by ...