[armedbear-devel] Tentative inclusion of JSS with ABCL contrib

[Mark Evenson]

Sick of having Clojure eat ABCL's lunch, I've decided to [start trying 
to include JSS as an ABCL contrib][1] to bring forward a more public 
platform for Java interop experiments on ANSI CL.  Or at least the 
example of one such platform.

[1]: http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/changeset/13281

I've gotten to the point of eliminating the use of bsh-2.0b4.jar, and 
most of INVOKE-RESTARGS without the jscheme.jar stuff.   Essentially the 
ABCL Java routines have evolved to a point that none of the external JAR 
dependencies should be necessary.  When jscheme.jar is eliminated, we 
will be able to load JSS quite comfortably from abcl-contrib.jar (even 
over the network).  With the additional syntax for ASDF, we will be able 
to start formalizing a packaging mechanism that allows us to mix 
Lisp/Java libraries in a systematic manner.

One question for Alan about the #1"something" form of the JSS macro:  is 
relied on outside of JSS?  It seems like it was introduced to get around 
a bug in abcl-0.18, but doesn't seem to be used anywhere inside the lsw2 
code base.  I've eliminated it in my port of JSS, but would like 
confirmation that nothing should be using it.

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