Followup: New Versions of Clojang Agent and API Published on Clojars

As with the post from the other day, tonight (this morning) has seen the two other core Clojang libraries get updates. The agent lib in particular is a cause for celebration, since there's been an out-standing issue with failing builds for the past year (a dep with AOT'ed classes was the primary suspect; unlike the vanilla class-not-found-due-to AOT'ed JAR file collisions, this one was particulaly nasty/unusual ... hadn't seen anything like it before). That issue is now closed and builds are successful again.

The agent is the means by which a JVM process can emulate the behaviour of an Erlang/OTP process (with regard to its messaging inbox, node name assignment, and other defaults set up automatically, keeping thigs simple for the developer).

The long-awaited fix allowed me to pump out the following agent releases:

• agent 0.4.0 for Erlang 19.2 and 19.3 (uses JInterface 1.7.1)
• agent 0.5.0 for Erlang 20.3 (uses JInterface 1.8.1)
• agent 0.6.0 for Erlang 21.0 (uses JInterface 1.9)

And then the clojang API releases that depended upon the different agent versions:

• clojang 0.4.0 for Erlang 19.2 and 19.3 (uses JInterface 1.7.1)
• clojang 0.5.0 for Erlang 20.3 (uses JInterface 1.8.1)
• clojang 0.6.0 for Erlang 21.0 (uses JInterface 1.9)

Still coming up ...

• Port more Erlang/Java examples to LFE/Clojure
• Demonstrate use with the Clojure Component library
• Demonstrate managing throw-away JVM instances from Erlang/LFE, managed via JMX