As far as I know, we don't already have any particular libraries or support for working with a JVM.
At Tue, 25 May 2010 13:07:28 -0400, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: > It's been a while since I've looked closely at our FFI docs, so maybe > this question has a trivial answer, but I can't find it by searching. > > For our security tools, we used to use the C FFI for a long time. But > then we switched out some of the underlying infrastructure, which is > in Java instead of C. It was much easier to prototype in SISC than in > PLT Scheme, so we switched to SISC for a while. > > Unfortunately, of course, the script grew up into a program. Since > there is likely to be a major re-implementation in the near future, > this is a good time to port it back to PLT. (Plus, I hear there's > this incredibly cool new thing called Racket coming out, and we want > to jump on the bandwagon so we're thought of as cool kids.) > > Question: What is the current state of an FFI to Java or the JVM? It > presumably won't be as nice as that in SISC, but we understand that > trade-off. However, with only one grad student on the tool, and his > time mostly spent on the theory, we don't want to get stuck in a rut > building and maintaining an FFI infrastructure. We'd rather use a > sanctioned and mantained FFI instead. > > Is there already a good Java FFI story? If not, are we the only ones > who could really use one? I'd have thought the Untyped and other Web > guys would have real use for one. > > Shriram > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
