Even though calling Julia through a REST API is certainly a viable approach, I think that loading the Julia runtime into Rust shouldn't be hard. See ui/repl.c <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/ui/repl.c> for how the REPL loads and uses libjulia. This should be basically the same from Rust.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Eric Forgy <eric.fo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am building a web app for enterprise risk management. I've made some > progress, but considering some significant changes now before I am too > committed. My current platform is Java/Spring MVC on the back end (C) and > Jsp, javascript, and d3 for the front end (V) and I was using Java for > numerical modeling (M). Coming from a 20+ year background using Matlab, my > experience trying to do any serious numerical modeling in Java is a little > frustrating so far. While considering alternatives, e.g. Matlab Production > Server, R, Python, etc, I was naturally led to Julia and am only now > beginning to research it, but really like what I see so far. > > Despite my ambitious goals, I am ignorant about most of the technologies > I'm using and learning as I go. Do you have any suggestions about how I > might be able to fit Julia into my Spring MVC framework? How can I call > Julia from Java? I don't see anything obvious. How about setting up a Julia > server and communicating with it via RESTful API from Java? Has anyone > tried anything like that? I eventually want to run everything on AWS. > > A bigger change would be to ditch Java all together and build everything > either entirely in Julia or, I had the thought of building the plumbing in > Rust and do the numerical modeling in Julia. Thus, capturing the best of > both. Then, I'd be faced with the same question. How to call Julia from > Rust? Is that crazy? > > A possible solution for both scenarios might be to set up a Julia server > and design a RESTful API. How does that sound? How about security? Could > something like this be done if the data in sensitive? > > I appreciate any thoughts and I really admire what you're doing with > Julia. Reminds me of the glory days before I sold my soul to Wall Street > (PhD computational electromagnetics, UIUC, 2002, MIT Lincoln Lab, > 2002-2004). I'm considering trying to get back to academics to redeem > myself before its too late though :) > > Best regards, > Eric > > > > >
