Recent Posts by Chris Liaw

Topic: Programming Erlang / Erlang control Java?

Hi,

After i read the book of Pragmatic Erlang, i got bought into the Erlang. However, since my previous project is all Java, i do have some Java library which is not available in Erlang such as complete cryptographic library.

I am pretty much wanted to use Erlang distributed, concurrency and fault torelant in my program but i also need the java cryptographic library. Hence i am thinking of creating a java program which is capable to be controlled by Erlang.

I tried the JInterface, it works but i am exploring to use Java port, which is the IO communication of Java program with Erlang node. However, i can not seems to get it working. Is there any specific steps which i need to do to allow Erlang can send and receive messages via open_port() with Java program?

Thanks.

Regards,
Chris