java An elegant set of language bindings to allow you to write native GNOME applications in Java. Works with both traditional Java VMs and also with GCJ, allowing the creation of native Linux executable binaries. This library comes from the java-gnome project, which in turn is part of the official suite of GNOME language bindings. This ebuild contains the Java bindings around the LibGlade library. LibGlade allows a program to read in an interface description file, created by Glade, and generate its graphical user interface based on that file - at runtime! [Hint: this coupled with the Eclipse IDE makes for awesome Rapid Application Development on the GTK/GNOME platform] If you're interested in this you probably want to emerge java-gnome - a meta package which in turn depends on the various GNOME libraries which comprise the complete java-gnome language binding suite. More probably, some program that uses java-gnome libraries will be bringing it in for you.