Someone has done this for you: http://jpetsctao.zwoggel.net/ good luck.
Barry
On Jul 4, 2012, at 7:55 AM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 12:48 AM, hbui <hgbk2008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a finite element program written in Java to perform analysis in
> structural application. I want to integrate petsc into my program to exploit
> the distributed parallel solver (with various preconditioners). How could i
> do that? i think about using swig to generate Java interface but i'm not
> clear on which should be the starting point.
>
> The first step is passing arrays of doubles between PETSc and Java. This will
> allow you to fill up Vec and Mat objects.
> Once that is done, you only need to wrap a few solvers functions.
>
> Matt
>
> Regards,
> Giang Bui
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> --
> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments
> is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments
> lead.
> -- Norbert Wiener