Hello fellow java-linux users. I have been working on an open source project that provides a way to combine Java and the Tcl scripting languages using the java reflection APIs. I was hoping I could get some help testing the code to make sure it works on a number of linux systems. To make a long story short, the code configures and compiles on Linux (I was using RedHat 5.2) and it works for me but I fear it may not work on some other systems. I was wondering if some of you folks might want to try it out on your Linux system and tell my if it works for you too. The code requires the JDK1.1.7v1a from blackdown with the native threads pack as it uses JNI. In case you are interested here is how you can download and install the code. 1. Download Tcl 8.0.4 from ftp.scriptics.com ftp://ftp.scriptics.com/pub/tcl/tcl8_0/tcl8.0.4.tar.gz 2. configure and compile Tcl tar -xzf tcl8.0.4.tar.gz cd tcl8.0.4/unix ./configure --enable-gcc --enable-shared make 2. Download the Tcl/Java package (AKA Tcl Blend and Jacl) http://www.cs.umn.edu/~dejong/tcl/tcljava1.1b1.tar.gz tar -xzf tcljava1.1b1.tar.gz cd tcljava1.1b1/unix (make sure javac is in your PATH before running configure) ./configure make shell Then type this into the shell that comes up. % package require java If it then prints "1.1" then everything worked. If it prints out an error message I would really like to see it. If you get an error, could you send it to me and include a copy of the config.log file that configure created. Thanks for taking the time to try out this package. You might also want to try it out just for fun. The package will let you write scripts that can access Java directly from Tcl code. (Short example of Tcl code that accesses JVM) #create new java object set jstr [java::new String "java string"] #call toString method on the object set str [$jstr toString] Of course this example is lame, but you can use this interface to allocate and invoke methods in any java object. You might also want to try out Jacl. It is a 100% Java implementation of a Tcl interpreter. You can compile and run it by typing "make TCLJAVA=jacl shell" at the command line. I works the same and Tcl and you can use it to embed scripting features into your Java program. thanks again mo dejong dejong at cs.umn.edu
