Haskell-JNI Bridge

[Ashley Yakeley]

Is Lambada (the Haskell-JNI bridge) gone? The web-page has disappeared. 
Using Java seems by far the most obvious way of getting all that 
GUI/network/SQL/whatever functionality, especially as the Java platform 
is almost ubiquitous (unlike .NET, Tk, X, GTK+, Win32 GDI, etc.).

In this apparent absence I'm writing my own Haskell-JNI bridge. So far, I 
can get code compiled with GHC 5 on Linux to call static Java methods 
(such as the 'main' method of an application class) and some other stuff 
such as create arrays. Phase 1 is to add the rest of the JNI functions 
(easy, but time-consuming). Phase 2 is to figure out how to create 
classes on the fly that can call back to Haskell. Fortunately Java does 
provide functions for loading classes from a byte-array of bytecode.

$ ./TestJNI
Hello from Java!
$

I intend to release it open source at some point.

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Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA