I preface this request with the disclosure that I know nothing about APL
or J.
But I've been asked to recreate an APL based system in Java and I'm
trying to understand APL's benefits and found J as part of my research.
J seems a little more viable and possibly "better" then APL but I'm not
knowledgeable enough to know.
My questions are...
Can APL be converted to J? and what are the options for doing that?. Is this
required, beneficial, etc.?
If there's any hope of using some of the existing code, I'd want to call J/APL from Java and get back
the results or have it update the data directly.
I saw some posts in the archive about Java to J communication. Anyone have any comments about their experience
integrating Java and J? I feel like this communication would "need" to be as close to an in-process call as possible and the
J process would have to be long running. Similar to a service or "engine" approach.
Anyone have any comments about J using an Oracle database? The application
processes a lot of data and the performance has to be there. I would
not want to send that much data to the J process, only the keys, it would access the data from Oracle, store the results and send back a status code or
perhaps return some new keys or other minimum amount of data.
Thanks for any help.
Robert Quinn
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