[kepler-dev] Build Broken (by MatlabExpression.java?)

[Tristan King]

My bad with that. I always figured that that java compliance settings in 
eclipse meant that the code would compile under 1.4 (or maybe it does 
and i'm doing something wrong). I've modified the actor now and compiled 
it using 1.4 to make sure it works, and will commit it again later on 
today (when i'm 100% sure it wont break anything :)).

I've looked into the java interfaces that come with matlab, and as far 
as i can tell they're not much use to us.

 From what i've managed to figure out, they just allow people to write 
java classes for use inside matlab's own jvm (i.e. the classes must be 
called from inside matlab), and don't do anything when run from a 
standard jvm.

If anyone knows any different, please let me know. I'm not a big fan of 
the whole spawning additional processes to preform these tasks, and even 
less of having to parse text output to decipher the results. But for now 
i don't know of any other way of doing this.

--Tristan

Christopher Brooks wrote:
> BTW - The Ptolemy Matlab expression actor uses JNI to communicate
> with Matlab.  I believe there is now a pure Java Matlab interface
> which is much more robust than JNI.  I would support tossing the
> Ptolemy Matlab expression actor for a non-JNI Matlab actor.
> 
> Nandita create a MatlabStartScript utility that looks like it starts
> a remote Matlab process using Runtime.getRuntime().exec().  
> I'm not so sure if this is the right thing, since it starts a 
> separate process each time.  It might be better to have a 
> more integrated actor?  However, I'm not sure what the plan is
> for this actor, so there could easily be good uses for it.
> 
> 
> _Christopher
> 
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> 
>     MatlabExpression code is apparently keeping the nightly build from 
>     compiling. Would however is working on this please fix ASAP!
>     
>     (And is this different that the Matlab actor in PTII ? (which we could 
>     put in Kepler)
>     
>     Dan Higgins
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