Hi Joern, I suggest to build Java API as a wrapper of Scala API, re-use most of the procedures. Referring to the Java API in Apache Spark.
2017-08-16 18:21 GMT+08:00 Joern Kottmann <jo...@apache.org>: > Hello all, > > I would like to propose the addition of a Java API to MXNet. > > There has been some previous work done for the Scala API, and it makes > sense to at least share the JNI layer between the two. > > The Java API probably should be aligned with the Python API (and > others which exist already) with a few changes to give it a native > Java feel. > > As far as I understand there are multiple people interested to work on > this and it would be good to maybe come up with a written proposal on > how things should be. > > My motivation is to get a Java API which can be used by Apache OpenNLP > to solve various NLP tasks using Deep Learning based approaches and I > am also interested to work on MXNet. > > Jörn -- Yizhi Liu DMLC member Technical Manager Qihoo 360 Inc, Shanghai, China
