[Chicago-talk] Interfacing to a Java pgm with API

Jay Strauss me at heyjay.com
Tue Oct 7 21:02:16 CDT 2003


Just what I want to do, get up in front of a bunch of people and show them
how ignorant I am


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Summers" <ehs at pobox.com>
To: "Chicago.pm chatter" <chicago-talk at mail.pm.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Chicago-talk] Interfacing to a Java pgm with API


> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:11:53AM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote:
> > Anyhow, does anyone have any suggestions what avenues I might explore
about
> > who to make this talk to perl?  Oh, BTW they also make a C++ API too.
>
> Sounds like a great opportunity to dig into building a Perl wrapper for
> the C++ API. I've heard SWIG is a nice way for doing this. Pick up a copy
> of Extending and Embedding Perl from Manning which talks all about how
> to do this. EEP has a section on SWIG, and details the options you will
have.
>
> You also could try using a CPAN module like Java [1] or Inline::Java to
> wrap the Java directly in Perl. I have no experience with either, so I
can't
> comment on how well they work. But it would be interesting. At the very
least,
> if you come up with a workable solution it would make a killer
> chicago-pm/uniforum presentation.
>
> //Ed
>
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