Hi,

A french company made a kind of middleware that bridge Java and  
Smalltalk. You can have applications from both worlds collaborating.

See www.birdtechnology.net
The Smalltalk part of it is freely available on squeaksource.com

Noury
Le 1 avr. 05, à 15:37, Mike a écrit :

> Oh my God yes, this is fantastic.  I've been doing java for years
> now, its my bread and butter.  I have been learning smalltalk over
> the last 4 or 5 months so far I love it and it would be my
> language of choice for any new projects I am starting.  But there
> are excellent libraries in Java that I miss - Lucene springs to
> mind - so if you are telling me that I can have the best of both
> worlds, I would pull your arm off in my haste to get it.  And I
> suspect there are other developers in the same boat.  I also
> suspect that its not a case of "compile and go" i.e. would I be
> able to compile Lucene java code and call it just like that from
> smalltalk code?
>
> Take care,
> Mike.
>
> Receive and share.
>
> On Fri Apr 01 04:16:08 PST 2005, "Welch, Ronald P (US SSA)"
> <ronald.p.welch at baesystems.com> wrote:
>
>> I think there is definitely interest in this. Dynamic languages
>> on the JVM are a hot topic of discussion right now, and to
>> my way of thinking anyway, Smalltalk is the poster child of
>> dynamic languages.
>>
>> I am curious though. What do you mean by the statement that
>> development is done in a "surrogate" Smalltalk environment?
>>
>> Ron
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jason Jones [mailto:jsj at ksc.com] Sent: Thursday, March 31,
>> 2005 3:23 PM
>> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>> Subject: Smalltalk/JVM
>>
>>
>> We were looking for feedback on turning Smalltalk/JVM into an
>> open
>> source
>> project.
>>
>> Smalltalk/JVM is a Smalltalk Compiler that compiles to Java
>> bytecodes
>> and
>> class files.
>>
>> Is this something any of you out there in the programming
>> community are
>> interested in?  We would love some feedback.
>>
>> Mission Software, Inc. has created a Smalltalk compiler for the
>> JVM.
>> This
>> compiler allows Smalltalk to run on any JVM. The compiler
>> currently
>> produces
>> 100% Java class files fully compatible with the Sun JVM
>> specification.
>> This
>> allows Smalltalk and Java code to interact seamlessly and allows
>> Smalltalk
>> programs to run anywhere Java runs.
>>
>>
>> a.. Compiler compiles Smalltalk classes into Java .class files
>> a.. Java code callable from Smalltalk code
>> a.. Smalltalk code callable from Java code
>> a.. Java classes subclassing Smalltalk classes
>> a.. Smalltalk classes subclassing Java classes
>> a.. Development is done in a "surrogate" Smalltalk environment
>> a.. Execution in any JVM environment
>> a.. Support for Smalltalk blocks
>> a.. Support for JIT Compilers
>> a.. Ability to write Servlets in Smalltalk
>> a.. Ability to write Applets in Smalltalk (No plug-in required)
>> a.. No special VM required
>>
>> Please email any questions to me at jsj at ksc.com
>>
>> -- Jason Jones
>> Knowledge Systems Corporation
>> Smalltalk Industry Council
>> 919.789.8549 x.21
>> www.ksc.com
>> www.missionsoft.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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Ecole des Mines de Douai - Dept. G.I.P
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