Status of Java support and Guile conversion?

[Roland Besserer]

Hi,

I am increasingly working on projects that are either all Java or have a 
major Java component. Particularly in mixed environments, with a lot of 
Java code, native components written in C/C++, test environments using 
expect or guile, etc.  setting up build and release environments becomes 
increasing difficult.

I have done a few searches to ascertain the state of Java support for 
the automake/autoconf tools which have been, in the past, difficult to 
use in a Java or mixed environment (we're mostly using Jam, right now). 
Although I have seen some activity it's unclear if there is any type of 
focused effort under way to fully integrate Java builds and what that 
status of that effort is - specifically, is there anything out there 
that we could try our hands on.

During the searches I also came across a remark along the lines that 
autoconf/automake would be re-written in Guile. Didn't find anything 
else, but that is pretty exciting. I'm currently fixing and extending 
the old greg library (sort of a simple expect for Guile) to run with the 
latest Guile release and drive our automated test suite. Anyone have any 
info on this effort?

Regards

roland