Re: [Haskell-cafe] The best way to call Java from Haskell?

2011-10-12 Thread Janis Voigtländer

Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org writes:

Jerzy Karczmarczukjerzy.karczmarc...@unicaen.fr writes:

Don't worry, my friend. Haskell is lazy, so there is no problem in
handling those infinite modules. It will just take you an infinite
amount of time before you get any money from such a work. But this is
a general problem elsewhere as well.


I guess you must be thinking of Haskell being increasingly used in
banks?  It must have been some bank manager who, after hiring one too
many Haskell programmers, invented a scheme that would generate an
infinite amount of money.  He didn't realize before it was too late that
the actual value of the scheme would be bottom...


See also: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Humor/Enron

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] The best way to call Java from Haskell?

2011-10-11 Thread JP Moresmau
I had started a project to start a JVM and call Java code from
Haskell, but got sidetracked into EclipseFP, but I hope to go back to
it someday.
https://github.com/JPMoresmau/HJVM. Have a look at the test suite for
some examples.

Hope this helps

JP

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Aatch blad...@gmail.com wrote:
 There are some projects to try and provide a bridge between Haskell
 and the JVM. Unfortunately none of the seem to have much development.
 As it stands, there is GCJNI, which allows Haskell to invoke Java
 code, seems like a Java version of hsc2hs, but the site is down, it
 just 404s. There is also haskell-jvm-bridge, but that doesn't look
 like it has any development for about 18 months, and there isn't much
 about it. Then there is LambdaVM, which looks the most promising, as
 it compiles GHC byte-code to JVM bytecode. However, it doesn't look it
 has been updated in a few years.
 You can try your luck with any of those, but currently, if you want a
 decent FFI for Java, you're probably going to have to resurrect one of
 those projects.

 ---
 James Miller



 On 11 October 2011 15:26, Claude Lee calee2...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 vote+1.

 Theoretically, you can bridge Haskell and Java with FFI. It applys to small
 projects. Larger ones may need some build tools...

 Claude

 2011/10/11 dokondr doko...@gmail.com

 Hi,
 I need to call Stanford NLP Parser from Haskell (unfortunately Haskell
 does not have a similar one):
 http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/lex-parser.shtml

 What would be the most reliable framework for this?

 Thanks!
 Dmitri



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Re: [Haskell-cafe] The best way to call Java from Haskell?

2011-10-11 Thread Michael Snoyman
Perhaps my needs are unique here, but I thought I'd mention them
anyway. The main tool we use at work is based on a hodge-podge of
Java, Ant and XSLT code[1]. This thing has to be constantly extended
to support new functionality (or fix one of its myriad bugs), and
there's no technical hurdle to using Haskell to that end. In fact, my
company has released a few packages[2][3][4] specifically in this
venture.

There are two problems, however:

* Some clients have an insistence that code run on the JVM.
* It's inconvenient having multiple executables. Additionally, I've
run into some problems in the past deploying to ancient Linux
servers[5].

So for my use case, I don't care at all about interacting with Java
code, I simply want to be able to turn my existing Haskell code into a
JAR file. This seems like a much simpler undertaking, but I'm still
not aware of any way to get this to happen right now either.

Michael

[1] http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xml-enumerator
[3] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xml-hamlet
[4] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/uri-enumerator
[5] 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5953199/create-a-static-haskell-linux-executable

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:15 AM, JP Moresmau jpmores...@gmail.com wrote:
 I had started a project to start a JVM and call Java code from
 Haskell, but got sidetracked into EclipseFP, but I hope to go back to
 it someday.
 https://github.com/JPMoresmau/HJVM. Have a look at the test suite for
 some examples.

 Hope this helps

 JP

 On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Aatch blad...@gmail.com wrote:
 There are some projects to try and provide a bridge between Haskell
 and the JVM. Unfortunately none of the seem to have much development.
 As it stands, there is GCJNI, which allows Haskell to invoke Java
 code, seems like a Java version of hsc2hs, but the site is down, it
 just 404s. There is also haskell-jvm-bridge, but that doesn't look
 like it has any development for about 18 months, and there isn't much
 about it. Then there is LambdaVM, which looks the most promising, as
 it compiles GHC byte-code to JVM bytecode. However, it doesn't look it
 has been updated in a few years.
 You can try your luck with any of those, but currently, if you want a
 decent FFI for Java, you're probably going to have to resurrect one of
 those projects.

 ---
 James Miller



 On 11 October 2011 15:26, Claude Lee calee2...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 vote+1.

 Theoretically, you can bridge Haskell and Java with FFI. It applys to small
 projects. Larger ones may need some build tools...

 Claude

 2011/10/11 dokondr doko...@gmail.com

 Hi,
 I need to call Stanford NLP Parser from Haskell (unfortunately Haskell
 does not have a similar one):
 http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/lex-parser.shtml

 What would be the most reliable framework for this?

 Thanks!
 Dmitri



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Re: [Haskell-cafe] The best way to call Java from Haskell?

2011-10-11 Thread JP Moresmau
Maybe your Haskell code could be compiled with only minor
modifications on something like CAL or Frege? There seems to be some
interest in them these days, so maybe a translator is on its way...

JP

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Michael Snoyman mich...@snoyman.com wrote:
 Perhaps my needs are unique here, but I thought I'd mention them
 anyway. The main tool we use at work is based on a hodge-podge of
 Java, Ant and XSLT code[1]. This thing has to be constantly extended
 to support new functionality (or fix one of its myriad bugs), and
 there's no technical hurdle to using Haskell to that end. In fact, my
 company has released a few packages[2][3][4] specifically in this
 venture.

 There are two problems, however:

 * Some clients have an insistence that code run on the JVM.
 * It's inconvenient having multiple executables. Additionally, I've
 run into some problems in the past deploying to ancient Linux
 servers[5].

 So for my use case, I don't care at all about interacting with Java
 code, I simply want to be able to turn my existing Haskell code into a
 JAR file. This seems like a much simpler undertaking, but I'm still
 not aware of any way to get this to happen right now either.

 Michael

 [1] http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/
 [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xml-enumerator
 [3] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xml-hamlet
 [4] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/uri-enumerator
 [5] 
 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5953199/create-a-static-haskell-linux-executable

 On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:15 AM, JP Moresmau jpmores...@gmail.com wrote:
 I had started a project to start a JVM and call Java code from
 Haskell, but got sidetracked into EclipseFP, but I hope to go back to
 it someday.
 https://github.com/JPMoresmau/HJVM. Have a look at the test suite for
 some examples.

 Hope this helps

 JP

 On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Aatch blad...@gmail.com wrote:
 There are some projects to try and provide a bridge between Haskell
 and the JVM. Unfortunately none of the seem to have much development.
 As it stands, there is GCJNI, which allows Haskell to invoke Java
 code, seems like a Java version of hsc2hs, but the site is down, it
 just 404s. There is also haskell-jvm-bridge, but that doesn't look
 like it has any development for about 18 months, and there isn't much
 about it. Then there is LambdaVM, which looks the most promising, as
 it compiles GHC byte-code to JVM bytecode. However, it doesn't look it
 has been updated in a few years.
 You can try your luck with any of those, but currently, if you want a
 decent FFI for Java, you're probably going to have to resurrect one of
 those projects.

 ---
 James Miller



 On 11 October 2011 15:26, Claude Lee calee2...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 vote+1.

 Theoretically, you can bridge Haskell and Java with FFI. It applys to small
 projects. Larger ones may need some build tools...

 Claude

 2011/10/11 dokondr doko...@gmail.com

 Hi,
 I need to call Stanford NLP Parser from Haskell (unfortunately Haskell
 does not have a similar one):
 http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/lex-parser.shtml

 What would be the most reliable framework for this?

 Thanks!
 Dmitri



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Re: [Haskell-cafe] The best way to call Java from Haskell?

2011-10-11 Thread Michael Snoyman
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:34 AM, JP Moresmau jpmores...@gmail.com wrote:
 Maybe your Haskell code could be compiled with only minor
 modifications on something like CAL or Frege? There seems to be some
 interest in them these days, so maybe a translator is on its way...

Likely not. xml-enumerator relies on attoparsec-text and
blaze-builder, neither of which I'd imagine will work easily on either
CAL or Frege. And xml-hamlet uses quasi-quotation, which almost
certainly wouldn't work. I could likely change it from real QQ to some
kind of preprocessor without too much effort, but I think overall it's
a losing venture.

Michael

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] The best way to call Java from Haskell?

2011-10-11 Thread Karel Gardas

On 10/11/11 08:23 AM, Michael Snoyman wrote:

So for my use case, I don't care at all about interacting with Java
code, I simply want to be able to turn my existing Haskell code into a
JAR file. This seems like a much simpler undertaking, but I'm still
not aware of any way to get this to happen right now either.


LambdaVM do exactly what you like, but is experimental and unfortunately 
out-dated. It's based on pre ghc 6.8:


$ ./compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.7.20081028

anyway, for hello world like examples it's working well, although 
benchmarking shows that it's slower on the same code then frege for 
example (testing just naive fib to compare recursion speed)


I've contacted author several times and asked for updating or help with 
updating it to latest GHC HEAD but received no reply so far and 
unfortunately my Haskell knowledge is kind of enough to write just this 
hello world...


Karel

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] The best way to call Java from Haskell?

2011-10-11 Thread Michael Snoyman
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Karel Gardas karel.gar...@centrum.cz wrote:
 On 10/11/11 08:23 AM, Michael Snoyman wrote:

 So for my use case, I don't care at all about interacting with Java
 code, I simply want to be able to turn my existing Haskell code into a
 JAR file. This seems like a much simpler undertaking, but I'm still
 not aware of any way to get this to happen right now either.

 LambdaVM do exactly what you like, but is experimental and unfortunately
 out-dated. It's based on pre ghc 6.8:

 $ ./compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace --version
 The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.7.20081028

 anyway, for hello world like examples it's working well, although
 benchmarking shows that it's slower on the same code then frege for example
 (testing just naive fib to compare recursion speed)

 I've contacted author several times and asked for updating or help with
 updating it to latest GHC HEAD but received no reply so far and
 unfortunately my Haskell knowledge is kind of enough to write just this
 hello world...

 Karel


Yes, I really wish LambdaVM were alive and kicking. I've never
actually hacked on GHC itself, but this might be the impetus to get me
started. I might have some time to look at this in more depth a few
months from now.

Michael

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] The best way to call Java from Haskell?

2011-10-11 Thread Yitzchak Gale
Dmitri wrote:
 I need to call Stanford NLP Parser from Haskell
 (unfortunately Haskell does not have a similar one)...

Just out of curiosity, why do you not consider GF
at all similar? To an outsider like me, there does
appear to be quite a bit of similarity.

http://www.grammaticalframework.org/

Thanks,
Yitz

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] The best way to call Java from Haskell?

2011-10-11 Thread dokondr
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Yitzchak Gale g...@sefer.org wrote:

 Dmitri wrote:
  I need to call Stanford NLP Parser from Haskell
  (unfortunately Haskell does not have a similar one)...

 Just out of curiosity, why do you not consider GF
 at all similar? To an outsider like me, there does
 appear to be quite a bit of similarity.

 http://www.grammaticalframework.org/

 Thanks,
 Yitz


As I understand GF is well suited for parsing well defined formal languages.
Not sure that GF can be used as NLP parser for blog messages that I need.
Please correct me if I am wrong.

As a general note, Java has tons of useful libraries that will take infinite
time to re-implement in Haskell. To my mind it makes a lot of sense to have
a reliable mechanism to call Java from Haskell.
BTW, yet another way to do this: wrap Java library in RESTFUL web service )

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] The best way to call Java from Haskell?

2011-10-11 Thread Felipe Almeida Lessa
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:56 AM, dokondr doko...@gmail.com wrote:
 useful libraries that will take infinite time to re-implement in Haskell
  

My brain just exploded.
I can't handle infinite-length modules.
In the e-mail thread
The best way to call Java from Haskell?
In the mailing list:
haskell-cafe

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] The best way to call Java from Haskell?

2011-10-11 Thread Jerzy Karczmarczuk

Felipe Almeida Lessa cites and comments:


 useful libraries that will take infinite time to re-implement in 
Haskell

  

My brain just exploded.
I can't handle infinite-length modules.


Don't worry, my friend. Haskell is lazy, so there is no problem in 
handling those infinite modules. It will just take you an anfinite 
amount of time before you get any money from such a work. But this is a 
general problem elsewhere as well.


Jerzy Karczmarczuk


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Re: [Haskell-cafe] The best way to call Java from Haskell?

2011-10-11 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:56 AM, dokondr doko...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Yitzchak Gale g...@sefer.org wrote:

 Just out of curiosity, why do you not consider GF
 at all similar? To an outsider like me, there does
 appear to be quite a bit of similarity.

 As I understand GF is well suited for parsing well defined formal languages.
 Not sure that GF can be used as NLP parser for blog messages that I need.

That is correct - more or less.  GF is a very expressive language, and
it can handle a great deal of natural language, but it /does/ require
that the input be grammatically correct, and it is difficult to work
in unexpected vocabulary.

GF is fantastic for making flexible Controlled Natural Languages, and
it excels at producing human-readable text, but it is an entirely
different beast from a statistical natural language parser, such as
Stanford's.

re: the original question --

The best method I've found for interfacing Haskell / Java for NLP is
to share data with some common format, such as UIMAs CAS
serialization.  We really ought to start up a group of people
interested in that over on the Haskell NLP list and see what we have
if we pool all our efforts.

--Rogan

 Please correct me if I am wrong.
 As a general note, Java has tons of useful libraries that will take infinite
 time to re-implement in Haskell. To my mind it makes a lot of sense to have
 a reliable mechanism to call Java from Haskell.
 BTW, yet another way to do this: wrap Java library in RESTFUL web service )
 --
 All the best,
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 doko...@gmail.com
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Re: [Haskell-cafe] The best way to call Java from Haskell?

2011-10-11 Thread Ketil Malde
Jerzy Karczmarczuk jerzy.karczmarc...@unicaen.fr writes:

 Don't worry, my friend. Haskell is lazy, so there is no problem in 
 handling those infinite modules. It will just take you an infinite
 amount of time before you get any money from such a work. But this is
 a general problem elsewhere as well.

I guess you must be thinking of Haskell being increasingly used in
banks?  It must have been some bank manager who, after hiring one too
many Haskell programmers, invented a scheme that would generate an
infinite amount of money.  He didn't realize before it was too late that
the actual value of the scheme would be bottom...

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[Haskell-cafe] The best way to call Java from Haskell?

2011-10-10 Thread dokondr
Hi,
I need to call Stanford NLP Parser from Haskell (unfortunately Haskell does
not have a similar one):
http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/lex-parser.shtml

What would be the most reliable framework for this?

Thanks!
Dmitri
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Re: [Haskell-cafe] The best way to call Java from Haskell?

2011-10-10 Thread Claude Lee
Hi,

vote+1.

Theoretically, you can bridge Haskell and Java with FFI. It applys to small
projects. Larger ones may need some build tools...

Claude

2011/10/11 dokondr doko...@gmail.com

 Hi,
 I need to call Stanford NLP Parser from Haskell (unfortunately Haskell does
 not have a similar one):
 http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/lex-parser.shtml

 What would be the most reliable framework for this?

 Thanks!
 Dmitri



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Re: [Haskell-cafe] The best way to call Java from Haskell?

2011-10-10 Thread Aatch
There are some projects to try and provide a bridge between Haskell
and the JVM. Unfortunately none of the seem to have much development.
As it stands, there is GCJNI, which allows Haskell to invoke Java
code, seems like a Java version of hsc2hs, but the site is down, it
just 404s. There is also haskell-jvm-bridge, but that doesn't look
like it has any development for about 18 months, and there isn't much
about it. Then there is LambdaVM, which looks the most promising, as
it compiles GHC byte-code to JVM bytecode. However, it doesn't look it
has been updated in a few years.
You can try your luck with any of those, but currently, if you want a
decent FFI for Java, you're probably going to have to resurrect one of
those projects.

---
James Miller



On 11 October 2011 15:26, Claude Lee calee2...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 vote+1.

 Theoretically, you can bridge Haskell and Java with FFI. It applys to small
 projects. Larger ones may need some build tools...

 Claude

 2011/10/11 dokondr doko...@gmail.com

 Hi,
 I need to call Stanford NLP Parser from Haskell (unfortunately Haskell
 does not have a similar one):
 http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/lex-parser.shtml

 What would be the most reliable framework for this?

 Thanks!
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