[armedbear-devel] Using ABCL's JSR-223 support for Ant integration

[Erik Huelsmann]

Together with Alex Mizrahi, I'm working on resurrecting (and
improving) ABCL-web, the Java<->ABCL servlet bridge.

Because the ABCL-web project consists of both Java and lisp files
which need to be distributed in compiled form in a JAR, I'm looking at
ways to extend the (NetBeans generated) Ant based build for the
ABCL-web project.

So far, I've come up with 2 solutions (the third approach turns out to
be no solution):

1. Create a custom Ant task - which isn't exactly a lot of work, but still...
2. Integrate with Ant using our JSR-223 implementation based on the
Ant SCRIPT tag


The latter turned out to be two minutes work for a trivial project
file (run from the ABCL project directory root):

=================
 <project name="squares" default="main" basedir=".">
  <target name="main">
    <script language="ABCL" classpath="dist/abcl.jar"> <![CDATA[
    (print "ok")
    ]]> </script>
  </target>
</project>
=================

However, the output is a bit peculiar [note the 4 characters each
being on their own line!]:

C:\Users\Erik\Documents\abcl-j>ant -f b.xml
Buildfile: b.xml

main:
   [script] #<PACKAGE "ABCL-SCRIPT">
   [script] #<PACKAGE "ABCL-SCRIPT-USER">
   [script] #<PACKAGE "ABCL-SCRIPT">
   [script] +GLOBAL-SCOPE+
   [script] +ENGINE-SCOPE+
   [script] +PUT-BINDING+
   [script] +GET-BINDINGS+
   [script] GENERATE-BINDINGS
   [script] GENERATE-SPECIAL-DECLARATIONS
   [script] GENERATE-JAVA-BINDINGS
   [script] EVAL-IN-SCRIPT-CONTEXT
   [script] EVAL-FUNCTION
   [script] EVAL-SCRIPT
   [script] EVAL-COMPILED-SCRIPT
   [script] COMPILE-SCRIPT
   [script] *INTERFACE-IMPLEMENTATION-MAP*
   [script] FIND-JAVA-INTERFACE-IMPLEMENTATION
   [script] REGISTER-JAVA-INTERFACE-IMPLEMENTATION
   [script] REMOVE-JAVA-INTERFACE-IMPLEMENTATION
   [script] ("CLOS" "PRINT-OBJECT" "FORMAT" "PPRINT" "ASDF")
   [script] #<PACKAGE "ABCL-SCRIPT">
   [script] *LAUNCH-SWANK-AT-STARTUP*
   [script] *SWANK-DIR*
   [script] *SWANK-PORT*
   [script] *USE-THROWING-DEBUGGER*
   [script] CONFIGURE-ABCL
   [script] ABCL: configured
   [script]
   [script]
   [script] "
   [script] o
   [script] k
   [script] "
   [script]

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 5 seconds


So, now I have two questions:

1. Can we silence the ABCL+Script boot up?
2. What's happening with the 1-character-per-line output of my script????


Any help would be appreciated!



Bye,


Erik.