Something that I have been playing with of late is calling Perl from Java, and it is something that I can see people needing more and more as time goes by.

Java-|
     |--> Perl (and maybe back again at some later date)

After talking with Patrick Leboutillier of Inline::Java, I decided to have a crack at building this functionality myself (at the time Inline::Java's focus was on calling Java from Perl, and the reverse was not complete).

What I needed was to be able to communicate with a custom built Perl based application server that we use to abstract our business logic from our Business Portal, to SAPs new J2EE enable server technology.
If anyone is interested in having a go, the results of this so far is org.perl.java.
The README explains the difficulties with JVMs, and the build requirements of Perl. So far, there is the ability to load an initial perl program, eval an arbitrary piece of Perl, call a static Perl method, and do an instance method call, on a previously defined Perl object reference. All return values are either further Perl object references or strings currently.

Posted by PiersHarding at April 17, 2004 9:43 PM