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  • Committer: Stephen Compall
  • Date: 2014-05-05 00:27:19 UTC
  • Revision ID: scompall@nocandysw.com-20140505002719-676yixhzpu8s93ps
New chapter "Integrating with platform libraries".

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@c Copyright (C) 2014  Stephen Compall
 
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@c See file ermine-user-guide.texi for copying conditions.
 
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@node Integrating with platform libraries
 
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@chapter Integrating with platform libraries
 
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@cindex Java
 
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@cindex Scala
 
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As said in @ref{Whats new about it,, What's new about it?}, Ermine
 
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Legacy was originally intended to integrate with a Java codebase.  For
 
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that reason, its internals are written in the @acronym{JVM} language
 
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@uref{http://scala-lang.org,, Scala}, to make it relatively easy to
 
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invoke Ermine functions from Scala.
 
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However, this integration goes both ways: it is also possible to refer
 
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to Java classes, fields, methods, and data in general, from Ermine.