Re: Java programming and JLink
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg45485] Re: [mg45471] Java programming and JLink
- From: "Werner Schuster" <werner.schuster at netway.at>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 00:00:33 -0500 (EST)
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
> Now mathematica 5 comes with the wonderful JLink package, which makes it > easy to work with Java inside mathematica. In some ways it's like > Jython, a cleaner language than Java within which you can create objects > to run on the Java VM. > But there seems to be one important functionality missing from JLink > (that is present in Jython): the ability to compile classes to .class > files that can be run on any Java VM. Well, the current J/Link provides interactive access to Java, ie. you can use Java classe (instantiate them, use the object, invoke methods,...) from Mathematica. You can also evaluate Mathematica expressions in Java code. > Am I right that this functionality is missing from JLink? J/Link does not include a way to create Java classes with Mathematica code. You can use Java classes but you can not create them. > Does anyone have a workaround to suggest? I know that I can also work > directly with Java and still call the classes that I compile there from > inside mathematica, but in several respects it would be nice to be able > to compile classes from mathematica as well. I am curious as to what exactly you would like to do with this functionality. Would you simply like to write Java programs inside the Mathematica Frontend (which allows a more dynamic environment for writing code than a text editor)? This is feasible, I suppose even without (m)any modifications to J/Link (similar projects also work, you mentioned Jython and there are other similar tools like Beanshell (http://www.beanshell.org/) , that can also create Java classes). With this solution, though, you would be restricted to using only Java method calls and the like from your code; use of Mathematica expressions (besides the ones for accessing Java objects) would be possible, but would require you to deploy Mathematica (at least the Kernel) with your generated Java classes. > Actually, it has just occurred to me while typing this that JLink may > not even have the ability to define new Java classes. If so, that's a > much more fundamental limitation. Well, there was recently the discusson here on Mathgroup, on how to introduce this capabilities to Mathematicas .Net/Link (which is basically the same as J/Link, but for Microsofts .NET). Maybe some of the insights for that effort can be reused for J/Link, mostly how to support more of the Java syntax inside of Mathematica (how to write a class definition, a method implementation,...). murphee -- Werner Schuster (murphee) Student of SoftwareEngineering and KnowledgeManagement Maintainer of the OGO-JOGI Project @ http://ogo-jogi.sourceforge.net/
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- Java programming and JLink
- From: Andrew Dabrowski <dabrowsa@indiana.edu>
- Java programming and JLink