Calling Perl from Java-land

[Williams, Kenneth (Ken) (TLR Corp)]

Hi,

I'm interested in checking out the new PerlNatives stuff in Inline::Java to see 
whether it can help me call some Perl code from Java-land.  More specifically, I know 
I can do something like the following, where Perl is the top level:

  Perl
    |-----> Java
              |------> Perl

But can I do this?

  Java
    |-----> Perl
              |------> Java

In other words, I want to create a perl interpreter from a Java program, and ask it to 
compile & run some perl code.  

I did get as far as the following:

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import org.perl.inline.java.*;

public class CallPerl {
    public CallPerl () throws InlineJavaException { }

    public static void main (String[] args)
        throws InlineJavaPerlException, InlineJavaException
    {
        System.out.println("Hello");
        InlineJavaPerlInterpreter pi
          = InlineJavaPerlInterpreter.getInstance();
    }
}
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However, I get a runtime exception:

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Exception in thread "main" org.perl.inline.java.InlineJavaException: Can't initialize 
PerlInterpreter functionnality: PerlInterpreter extension 
(/opt/perl/5.6.1/lib/auto/Inline/Java/PerlInterpreter/PerlInterpreter.so) can't be 
found
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Any tips?  I indeed don't seem to have a PerlInterpreter.so on my system - should I?

 -Ken