Hi all. With the most recent zip fixes in the CVS, I can now run Jacl (Java Command Language, a Tcl implementation in Java) with Kaffe. Many thanks to the Kaffe developers for helping me to get this Java code running under Kaffe. If you would like to try out this Tcl shell written in Java you can download the source here: http://www.cs.umn.edu/~dejong/tcl/tcljava/jacl1.2.1.tar.gz You can also find out a bunch of info about the project at these URLs. http://www.scriptics.com/java http://www.cs.umn.edu/~dejong/tcl/tcljava Install Jacl like so. tar -xzf jacl1.2.1.tar.gz cd jacl1.2.1/unix ./configure --with-kaffe=YOUR_KAFFE_INSTALL_ROOT make You can then drop into a Jacl shell with "make shell" and you can install using the jaclsh with "make install". If you are developing Kaffe or you are porting Kaffe to a new system you might want to download this package because the package also comes with regression tests for the JVM and Java libraries. These test are designed to check the Jacl implementation but they have a side effect of being a very good regression test for the JVM and runtime libraries. To run the regression tests type "make test". Some of the test currently fail under Kaffe because of unimplemented features Kaffe but you can ignore those. You can also compile and run these tests under the JDK to compare implementations. Of course, the coolest feature of the Jacl package is the ability to script Java code. Jacl uses the reflection API to create a scripting tool where you can allocate Java objects and call methods on them dynamically. (Example Jacl code) # This loads the java commands into the Tcl interp package require java # allocate java.util.Hashtable object set hash [java::new java.util.Hashtable] # add string keys to java.util.Hashtable $hash put key1 val1 $hash put key2 val2 $hash put key3 val3 # print out the value for the key3 key puts "key3 value is [$hash get key3]" (output is "key3 value is val3") Thanks again for all the help Mo DeJong dejong at cs.umn.edu
