On Nov 10, 2012, at 8:31 PM, Jimmie Houchin wrote: > On 11/10/2012 2:30 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: >> Jimmie >> >> did you look at JavaConnect? >> This is on our roadmap for Moose in December January. >> So that we can connect better to Java. >> >> Stef > > No I did not look at JavaConnect? I was not familiar with it. > > This looks like it would be awesome. The business world has lots of > proprietary APIs available in Java. If we could open Pharo up to the Java > world, that would be tremendous.
We need that for Moose too. Johan told me that this is working but need some ironing. There is also JNIPort > From what I read, it appears that it has no problem handling Java interfaces. > It appears that I could easily subclass a Java interface and implement the > required methods and satisfy Java when passing the objects back to Java. > > This would be fantastic. It was fully working on VisualWorks and we will work on it because this is important for us but not before december. > I guess that there is potential of having something to play with by end of > December, sometime January? No obligations, or promises of course. > > I haven't played with Moose yet. But I do look forward to it in the future. > It looks like it could be a great tool for technical analysis of financial > markets. > > Thanks for letting me know about this. I'll put Clojure on the shelf and > shuffle the order in which I am implementing my application so that I can > potentially use JavaConnect when available. Check also JNIport because this is a port of a way to connect with Java from dolphin. In fact johan and joachim worked in parallel :). > > Jimmie > > >
