Re: LuaJava Utilities

["Andrew Wilson" <agrwagrw@...>]

Real Cool!!   Should Scite LfW debugger work?  Andrew

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Rolf Ehrenreich Thorup
<rolft@daimi.au.dk> wrote:
> steve donovan wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/sdonovan/lua/luajava.zip
>>
>> This is a small Lua for Windows plugin that adds LuaJava plus some
>> interesting utilities. Just unzip into the LfW main directory, so that
>> things like luaj.exe sit next to lua.exe, etc. (If you don't use LfW,
>> then it should be straightforward anyway; the source is included)
>
> []
>>
>> The `import` function works like the Java statement of the same name,
>> so that import 'java.lang.*' means that things like String, Integer,
>> etc will be brought into the global namespace.  As an extra
>> convenience, when classes are imported, a `__call` metamethod is
>> defined, so that you can simply create objects by calling the types,
>> e.g. `String("hello")`.
>>
>>    > require 'java.import'
>>    > import 'java.lang.*'
>>    > s = String("hello")
>>    > print(s)
>>    hello
>
> Looks great! Much more convenient than the all these exhausting calls to
> bindClass and new.
>
> ./Rolf
>