Re: Java::2Perl6API formerly Java::Javap

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On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 08:41:35AM -0500, Phil Crow wrote:
>    Gmail confused my reading of this thread, so I didn't get to reply to this:
> 
>      I've a quick question for you (since I know practically zero Java)...
>      Given some large Java project, like a JDBC driver such as
>      [1]http://jdbc.postgresql.org/download.html
>      [2]http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/
>      what IDE-like tools would you recommend for browsing around the
>      files and visualizing the class structure?
> 
>    Eclipse is the best IDE for Java. It is an apache project (or so I
>    recall). It makes it very easy to browse structure by package, then
>    lets you build jar files with exactly what you want in them for
>    deployment. With subclipse ([3]http://subclipse.tigris.org/) it can
>    check out from svn, but the ones I've installed have always had cvs
>    support by default.

Thnaks. I guessed it would be Eclipse. I'll install it when I get back
home next week. (I'm on a semi-holiday in Italy at the moment).

>    Personal Update:
>    I've installed rakudo star and read the book that came with it.
>    Last night I wrote my first small grammar. So, now I'm ready to
>    ask: What do you have in mind for the Java-Perl translation?

Looking at http://github.com/timbunce/java2perl6/blob/master/TODO
I think the most important one is extracting the actual constant values
and reproducing them in the perl6 role.

I *think* the best way (or at least one way) is to extend the existing
parser to parse the output of java -p. I think that's best done in perl5
otherwise we'd end up rewriting the whole thing. (Umm, unless we go with
a perl6->json->perl5 approach but that seems rather twisted.)

Another useful item would be better handling of enums, or pretty much
anything else in the TODO that takes your fancy.

Tim.