On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Nitralime nitralime@googlemail.com wrote:
On 02/03/2010 08:05 PM, Mark Evenson wrote:
On 2/3/10 8:00 PM, Alessio Stalla wrote:
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:46 PM, nitralimenitralime@googlemail.com wrote:
IMHO, the ablity of using Java libraries easily should be an integral part of every language targeting JVM! I find it very unfortunate that the Java integration of ABCL is practically (i.e. out of the box) absent.
Why do you say that? ABCL's Java FFI is somewhat verbose, but apart from this limitation that Mark found, and maybe some things that could be polished and made more uniform, you can do anything you want.
We would probably be using SBCL if we didn't want integration with the JVM…
My description of the situation was intentionally provocative :-( I just wanted to draw your attention to the fact that the current JVM integration could be more user friendly than what it is now!
Do you have ideas on how to make it more user-friendly?
A more systematic tutorial would also be very nice for inexperienced users like me :-)
I agree, something like "how to use <insert java library here> with abcl" would be useful as a starting point for new users. Would you volunteer to write it? ;) More seriously, like Ville said, it would be nice if you identified what is hard for you and what is lacking in documentation, and write a report about it; someone else, or yourself when you'll have more experience, will eventually be able to use that information to make our documentation better.
Alessio