Ah, now that's quite an elegant solution - don't know why it didn't occur to
me before. It'll be about another month before I need this functionality so
I'll let you know how it works out and hopefully post some code up here for
other (to laugh at!)
Thanks,
Jamie ;-)
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: 01 September 2000 00:43
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [REBOL] REBOL and Java integration Re:
> Importance: Low
>
>
> Hi Jamie,
>
> an option would be to use Java's socket (under MS Windows Winsock)
> functions and connect to a function server written in REBOL
> (which could be
> as small as four or five lines of code).
>
> Send a character sequence consisting of the REBOL functions you want to
> invoke including filenames or urls you want them invoked on, and then have
> REBOL do the resulting string.
>
> I.e. if
>
> 1. Java sends REBOL the character sequence
>
> "parse-webpage/get-title read http://www.rebol.com/"
>
> 2. the function parse-webpage is defined in REBOL as
>
> >> source parse-webpage
> parse-webpage: func [string /get-title][
> if get-title [
> parse string [
> thru <title> copy title to </title>
> (page-title: title)]
> ]
> ]
> return title
> ]
>
> 3. the REBOL server uses do to evaluate this incoming string
>
> >> result: do submitted-script
>
> 4. and returns the result using a REBOL port,
>
> 5. then your Java app will get a
> character sequence consisting of
>
> {REBOL Technologies: Internet Platform for Business Relationship
> Management}
>
> REBOL becomes kind of a background script evaluator.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> At 02:27 PM 8/31/00 +0100, you wrote:
> >I'm a REBOL newbie so forgive me for breaking any unwritten rules.
> >
> >For me, REBOL has massive advantages over any other language particularly
> >for web-mining tasks such as scaping information out of web pages. The
> >trouble is I need this information in Java not REBOL (massive existing
> >source base etc).
> >
> >So my question is, how do I allow Java to make use of REBOL scripts to
> >retrieve information, perform tasks etc? Ideally it would be more than
> >simply invoking the REBOL interpreter with a pre-written script
> and dumping
> >the information into a file, although this does have possibilities.
> >
> >Any ideas, projects in the pipeline?
> >
> > Jamie
> >
> >�
> >
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> >
>
> ;- Elan [ : - ) ]
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