Re: [tcljava-user] Suitability of Tcl Blend

[Justin R. <ju...@ha...>]

People are still talking about expect4j!

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On Aug 28, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Tom Poindexter <tpo...@ny...> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:02:14AM +0000, Seamus McKenna wrote:
>> We have a test
>> framework in Java and would like to directly call legacy TCL  
>> scripts.  These scripts include packages like Expect so
>> I am not sure that JACL is suitable. That?s why I?m looking at  
>> TclBlend.  I see that it?s possible to call java directly
>> from TCL using ?package require java? e.g. java::import  
>> java.net.InetAddress.  But is it possible to carry out standard TCL
>> commands from JAVA?
>
> I don't use TclBlend, so I can't comment on its suitability for you.
> Yes, the 'java' package for TclBlend and Jacl allow your Tcl scripts
> to interact with Java objects.
>
> Jacl is certainly quite easy to integrate into Java.  Expect has been
> ported to run in Jacl, so it likely depends on which other extensions
> your Tcl scripts use.  Tcl-only extensions may or may not work,  
> depending
> mostly on the Tcl version for which any particular extension was  
> written.
> Any extension using the 'fileevent' command won't work in Jacl (yet!)
>
> See: http://code.google.com/p/expect4j/
>
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> Tom Poindexter
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