Re: Math Beans
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg18426] Re: Math Beans
- From: sch at mitre.org (Stuart C. Schaffner)
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 00:11:17 -0400
- Organization: The MITRE Corporation
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On 1 Jul 1999 02:34:11 GMT, "Jacqueline L. Spiegel - Cohen" <jackie at popmail.med.nyu.edu> wrote: >I was. Does Mathematica have packages that can be call/compiled >with another language ? I was looking for something that I could >integrate into Java, but I could use a package in another language >if that were more effecient or it were the only thing available. > Outside of mathematics, programmers are moving rapidly toward component architectures based on COM, CORBA, and Java Beans (all of which are similar). For mathematical systems WRI has Mathematica Link, which at least puts them on the leading edge in this specialized marketplace. However, it seems to me to be another example of a needlessly proprietary interface. I'm a relative newbie to COM myself, but it doesn't on the face of it look like it would be very difficult for the good folks at WRI to adapt what they have to allow the Mathematica front ends and kernels to be COM, CORBA, or Bean components and to allow interaction with foreign components. Anybody at Wolfram want to comment on the feasibility/advisability of this? Stu Schaffner, not speaking for The MITRE Corp.