Re: [tcljava-user] Jacl Status Questions/Survey

[Jeff S. <js...@on...>]

On Thu, 13 May 2004, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> 3) Is anyone actively using Jacl in projects?

We've developed a CMS that uses Jacl extensively.  Several web sites are
powered by it, such as http://www.delphi.com/.

Our version of Jacl has some extensive local modifications that we have
never submitted upstream.  Our goal was to have an extensible
object-oriented interpreter toolkit written entirely in Java.  We've
mostly succeeded (although if I were to do it again I'd look at Kawa
instead).

Performance was a key consideration.  Our local Jacl build runs typical
tcl scripts about 2-3 times slower than a native tclsh (and about 20x
faster than an unmodified Jacl release).  To achieve this we replaced all
of the parser and expression processor.  Consequently it is not 100%
compatible with the released Jacl.

Jeff