On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But, I have a sample application that I need to duplicate in perl. > The example is written in Java and I do NOT know java. I tried to > read through it and while some of it makes sense, I really only need > to know how and when its doing things. > > If I'm crazy, please tell me so. And, No. I don't consider this a > backwards move. Its one of choice to complete a project.
Your original question is a bit like "I don't know anything about Japanese, but I'd like to take a Japanese text and translate it into English." Find a Ja[vp]anese or post the text :) There is no way to automatically or manually convert a Java application to Perl in all cases. You can do it for a small subset of Java applications, manually. If the application does not heavily rely on threading, if it's text-based, and if its behavior does not depend on any libraries without direct parallels in Perl (e.g. Swing), you MAY be able to produce the same effect using Perl. I assume you are not interested in using Java from Perl or vice versa, which is possible but not easy. See "perldoc -q java". The best way to find out is to post the application source code (but if that's over 5-10 pages, please consider an external link rather than direct inclusion). If it's confidential, you may want to look for a contract programmer. Ted _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
