[Biojava-dev] Perl2Java

[mark.schreiber at group.novartis.com]

You could probably make a Perl compiler that makes Java bytecode or you 
could do it at a lower level. There was also an attempt to make BioPerl 
and BioJava interact at the CORBA level that only had limited success and 
has now been abandoned.

What you might want to try and do is make something like Jython for Perl 
so you could embed Perl snippets in Java programs. I think that might be 
useful although you might have to call it Jerl ;-)

- Mark

Mark Schreiber
Principal Scientist (Bioinformatics)

Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD)
10 Biopolis Road
#05-01 Chromos
Singapore 138670
www.nitd.novartis.com

phone +65 6722 2973
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Dear all,
I have build a C-to-Java compiler and at the moment I test ist. My idea 
was 
to connect BioPerl with BioJava. Perl has a C backend. So you could 
transform a 
Perl program to C and then to Java by making use of my tool. At the moment 
I 
test my tool standalone and may be next month I will include my C-to-Java 
compiler in Perl 5.8.4. But the frustrated point is: I have posted my idea 
in 
several newsgroups like in Perl and Java specific groups. But no one has 
interest. 
None sees a sense in such a tool like mine. So, I need a break. I am a 
little 
bit down. 
I am interested in any opinion about the idea of a Perl2Java compiler in 
the 
bioinformatic. 
 
Please let me know waht you think about such an idea.
 
Thanks for all.
 
Greetings from Germany Henrik

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