Hi everybody, I am working in a software company specialized in Eclipse based product development (and member of the Eclipse Fundation). We are very interesting in clojure features and we plan to use it in some of our products. I am currently working on clojure integration in OSGi Bundles in order to embed code in Eclipse plugins. As mentioned in some posts the biggest problems is class loading. Indeed in OSGi each bundle has its own class loader and class loading is not based on the application classpath or on the current thread class loader. Consequently, it is very difficult to make clojure work with java code and to use OSGi visibility and dependencies system inside clojure. I think the best solution is to use bundles class loader inside clojure class loading system. I developed a proof of concept that uses a new class loader that extends clojure.lang.DynamicClassLoader with bundle class loading capability. To know which bundle use to load classes or script file the class loader uses the current namespace which has to reflect the bundle name (this is the java convention for bundles). In order to use this new class loader I had to modified clojure.lang.RT#baseLoader and makeClassLoader and clojure.lang.core#import. Moreover to test this I made a experimental Eclipse Builder that enable AOT compilation of mixed clojure and java plugin. So far it seems to work well: clojure and java interact seamlessly and it is very fun to interact dynamically with an Eclipse instance!
I had some questions to the clojure community: * Whether it is possible to overload clojure class loading without introducing dependencies in clojure's core? * If their are some people interested in this application of clojure? (I can made my sources available) Moreover I will made a post on Eclipse E4 project mailing list (work on the future of Eclipse) as they are very interested in dynamic languages. BR, Gaetan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
