Calling Clojure 1.3 from Java

Question

I'd like to call a Clojure function from Java code. This question hasn't been asked recently, and the existing answers aren't working for me. (Clojure 1.3, leiningen 1.7.0). I have the following minimal program:

(ns thing.main (:gen-class :methods [#^{:static true} [foo [int] void]])) (defn -foo [i] (println "hello world, input is " i))

The project .clj looks like this:

(defproject thing "1.0.0-SNAPSHOT" :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.3.0"]] :aot [thing.main] :omit-source true)

I generate an uberjar, and I copy it into the same directory with this little Java program.

import thing.*; class HelloWorldApp { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello World!"); main.foo(5); // or, alternately, foo(5); } }

I compile using this command:

javac -cp '.:thing-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT-standalone.jar' HelloWorldApp.java

Compilation succeeds, but the program fails when it's run (ClassNotFoundException). The second form of invoking foo directly, as foo(5), doesn't even compile. I've also tried it with and without the "static" declaration in :gen-class.

ponzao · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-23 22:07:48Z

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Seems to work for me when I am running the program with classpath specified. Try like this:

java -cp '.:thing-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT-standalone.jar' HelloWorldApp

answered Mar 23, 2012 at 22:07

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sandover Over a year ago

You're right -- I was not invoking java with the full -cp option.

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