On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon pjb@informatimago.com wrote:
Lukas Georgieff lukas.georgieff@hotmail.com writes:
Hi,
I am new to ABCL and have a question to it's capabilities: My goal is to load an exsting part of a system coded in lisp into Java and to use the lisp code as basic library for a java application.
Currently my approach is to load the lisp code with: Interpreter interpreter = Interpreter.createInstance(); interpreter.eval("(load "my-lisp-code.lisp")"); ...
So the lisp code must be present in the project every time it is running. Is there any chance to translate the lisp code to a Java source file by using ABCL? So it would not be necessary to provide the lisp code in the java application after it is translated once.
Once compiled, the lisp code is provided as a .class file.
That's incorrect. It is provided as a distinct .abcl file for each .lisp file, which is a zip containing a text file (generated from the top-level forms in the .lisp file) + a .cls file for each function (top-level or non-inlined local) in the .lisp file. .cls files are in JVM class file format, but they're not loadable as-is because they don't obey the JVM naming conventions (they ought to be ending in .class and placed in a org/armedbear/lisp/ directory). What you *can* do is package .abcl files in a .jar file and use ASDF to load them with a single function call.
Bye, Alessio