Are there any efforts to make MAXIMA interaction with java?
Subject: Are there any efforts to make MAXIMA interaction with java?
From: Andrey Siver
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 12:33:23 +0300 (MSK)
Hello,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Dodier" <robert.dodier at gmail.com>
To: "Andrey Siver" <ihep-2005 at yandex.ru>
Cc: <maxima at math.utexas.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 4:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Maxima] Are there any efforts to make MAXIMA interaction with
java?
> On 12/27/06, Andrey Siver <ihep-2005 at yandex.ru> wrote:
>
>> I have a question: were there any efforts to make MAXIMA interaction with
>> java?
>
> I believe the best way to make this happen is for someone to write
> a Java bytecode generator for Clisp. If I'm not mistaken that is an
> item on the Clisp wish list. Clisp generates bytecodes for its own
> interpreter so generating Java bytecodes seems like not too much
> of a stretch ....
It seems to me, that API from lisp to java would be enough.
I think about the same thing as Mathematica jLink (when MAXIMA would be a
server and every java application would be a client).
>> And is there any success to make MAXIMA interaction with C/C++?
>
> Probably the best way to achieve that is to complete the GCL version
> of CFFI -- it is reported to work already for Clisp, SBCL, and CMUCL.
> I don't know if anyone is working on CFFI + GCL at the moment;
> you would have to check in with the CFFI project.
>
> Hope this helps, & happy new year,
Thank You,
-Andrey