Does Common Lisp have a socket library?
Chang Cheng Chao
Hi, everyone, does Common Lisp have a socket library. If it does, how do I
import it? I need it to output data from Lisp to Java in order to display
it in a web-browser. Thanks for your help.
Chang
David J Cooper Jr
I would also be interested to know what people are using for actual Java-Lisp client-server connections, there must be better things than low-level socket programming though.
I know ICAD (based on Allegro CL) is doing a Java API using Orbix
CORBA Orb, but I think it's pretty specific to ICAD as it will include
a Java3D geometry viewer and other things. There must be something
similar brewing somewhere for standard CL though (maybe as part of cl-http
-- they claim Java support, but I haven't yet looked into what they actually
mean by that).
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Erik Naggum
* Chang Cheng Chao
| Hi, everyone, does Common Lisp have a socket library. If it does, how do
| I import it? I need it to output data from Lisp to Java in order to
| display it in a web-browser. Thanks for your help.
which Common Lisp implementation do you use? for Allegro CL for Unix,
you will find a socket library at ftp.franz.com in /pub/socket.
the CLX sources come with a simple foreign function interface to socket
code in C, and I expect all Lisp implementations to have CLX ported to
them. this could be a start if you can't find a full-fledged library.
#:Erik