Embedding swank-clojure in java program

Question

Based on the Embedding section of http://github.com/technomancy/swank-clojure, I\'m using the following to test it out. Is there a better way to do this that doesn\'t use Com

Answer 1

Would it be acceptable to you to implement the Embed class in Clojure? You could do that with gen-class (see Meikel Brandmeyer's tutorial for details) and AOT compilation.

The code could go something like

(ns your-app.Embed
  (:require [swank.swank :as swank])
  (:gen-class
   :methods [[startSwank [] void]]))

(defn -startSwank []
  (swank/start-repl))

(add anything else you require); then in the Java part of your application, you could import your Clojure-prepared class, instantiate it and call .startSwank() on the instance.

Not sure about programmatically stopping Swank... I'd be curious to know of a good way to do that myself. (And I'll be back with an update if I figure it out; otherwise, I'd love to read somebody else's answer detailing how to go about that.)