>> Has anybody attempted to connect Maxima and Java? If so, what were the
>> biggest challenges?
>
>What sort of inputs do you want to send to Maxima and what sorts out
>outputs do you expect to get back? Specifically, do you expect to get
>back numbers, vectors of numbers, matrices of numbers, symbolic
>expressions, or something else? If the answer includes symbolic
>expressions, how would you deal with them? Do you plan to parse
>expressions in Maxima syntax and convert them to Java?
During the first time, I will use Maxima for performing matrix
operations (without symbolic expressions). So both inputs and outputs
will be matrices.
Writing Maxima
(http://demetrix.sourceforge.net/demetrix-rio/excel2maxima.html)
matrices is easy, and I think that parsing them (converting a string
matrix into a Java array) is also a relatively simple task.
>
>I looked at your scheme described in
><http://demetrix.sourceforge.net/resources/2004_02_07_maxima/2004_02_07_maxima.html>;. I'm afraid it doesn't quite make sense to me. I don't see any reason to talk to clisp independently of Maxima.
I didn't know that Maxima can be used in batch mode, therefore I
thought that using clisp is the only option.
>
>Here is a list of ways you could communicate between your program and
>Maxima:
Thanks a lot for this list!
I will try out some of the options and report to this list about my
experiences.
The project, in scope of which I want to use Maxima is open source
anyway.
Best regards
dap