It's been a while since I've looked closely at our FFI docs, so maybe this question has a trivial answer, but I can't find it by searching.
For our security tools, we used to use the C FFI for a long time. But then we switched out some of the underlying infrastructure, which is in Java instead of C. It was much easier to prototype in SISC than in PLT Scheme, so we switched to SISC for a while. Unfortunately, of course, the script grew up into a program. Since there is likely to be a major re-implementation in the near future, this is a good time to port it back to PLT. (Plus, I hear there's this incredibly cool new thing called Racket coming out, and we want to jump on the bandwagon so we're thought of as cool kids.) Question: What is the current state of an FFI to Java or the JVM? It presumably won't be as nice as that in SISC, but we understand that trade-off. However, with only one grad student on the tool, and his time mostly spent on the theory, we don't want to get stuck in a rut building and maintaining an FFI infrastructure. We'd rather use a sanctioned and mantained FFI instead. Is there already a good Java FFI story? If not, are we the only ones who could really use one? I'd have thought the Untyped and other Web guys would have real use for one. Shriram _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
