Re: [tcljava-dev] Re: [tcljava-user] JACL - Urgent help to make a design decision!

[Mo D. <md...@un...>]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:17:09 -0700
D.J.Hagberg <dha...@mi...> wrote:

> It sounds to me like what you really want is the TclJava package, not 
> Jacl.

Just to clear up the confusion here. The "Tcl/Java" package is a Tcl
package of Tcl commands that is supported by both Jacl and Tcl Blend.
Tcl Blend is the JNI based layer that supports loading a Java VM into
a Tcl process or loading Tcl into an existing JVM. Jacl is a set of 100%
pure Java code that implements a Tcl interpreter.

> Jacl is also a bit dated, supporting only up to around Tcl 8.0 features.
> You definitely do not want to use 
> Jacl if a major part of your code base uses Expect.

It is true that Jacl can't load C based Tcl extensions like Expect. It is
a bit misleading to say that Jacl supports only Tcl 8.0 features.
Jacl supports most but not all the Tcl commands. The features Jacl
does not support typically can't be implemented using the existing Java API.

cheers
Mo DeJong