I'd like to announce JavaCall.jl, a package that lets you call java programs from Julia. Documentation is available at: http://aviks.github.io/JavaCall.jl/ .
As explained in the documentation, the interface is currently quite low level, similar in style to Julia's existing `ccall`. Therefore, it is best used to wrap existing libraries, rather can be called directly. Once such example is Taro.jl (http://github.com/aviks/Taro.jl) a package that can be used to read various office document files. It contains functions to read a DataFrame from an Excel file, and extract text from various document files such as word an pdf. All of this has predominantly been tested only on my machine, so tests with different inputs and hardware/os combinations are much appreciated. I'd also like to here any feedback on the design. Regards - Avik
