Clojure & Java Interop

Clojure & Java Interop

About a year ago I got a phone call asking if I wanted to join another team at DRW . The team supports a (primarily) Java application, but the performance requirements would also allow it to be written in a higher level language. I'd been writing Clojure (basically) full-time at that point - so my response was simple: I'd love to join, but I'm going to want to do future development using Clojure. A year later we still have plenty of Java, but the vast majority of the new code I add is Clojure. One of the big reasons I'm able to use Clojure so freely is the seamless interop with Java. Execute Clojure from Java Calling Clojure from Java is as simple as loading the .clj file and invoking a method from that file. I used the same example years ago, but I'll inline it here for simplicity. ; interop/core.clj (ns interop.core) (defn print-string [arg] (println arg)) // Java callin...

Full article: http://blog.jayfields.com/2011/12/clojure-java-interop.html