Re: Linking Mathematica and Java
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- Subject: [mg14873] Re: Linking Mathematica and Java
- From: tgayley at mcs.net (Todd Gayley)
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 10:11:52 -0500
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On 20 Nov 1998 02:40:09 -0500, Richard Cooper <csubu at dcs.warwick.ac.uk> wrote: >Hi > >Can anyone help me get Java to talk to Mathematica. I assume that they >can be linked using JNI and MathLink. Has anybody written code to do >this? > >Also, is it possible to do it in a platform independent way (as both >Java and Mathematica are) with out having to use C/C++ as a wrapper >around the MathLink calls? > >Thanks, > >Richard. Richard, I am in the middle of a major project linking Mathematica and Java via MathLink. As you suspect, it uses JNI, and I cannot envision a way to do it that doesn't involve some platform-specific code, as you need to call the plaform-specific MathLink library at some point. My project has only one platform-dependent component, a shared library that is built from a single completely portable C file. I will post a message to this group as the project nears completion. --Todd Gayley