Wow ... seriously?

I've just had the misfortune to read an article about how to use Java from Perl. Maybe I am missing the point here but that sounds like one of the most awful things you could possibly do. I've spent the past 5 years working in bioinformatics (an industry where Java & Perl are the major players outside of algorithm work) and not once have I ever thought "I wish I could use my Java in Perl".

It's amazing really but I've encountered this exact problem of Java to Perl communication over the past 3 weeks the final decision was to communicate using JSON & then leave Perl to work over the incoming JSON data. This works brilliantly and we have a very clear separation of concerns between Java & Perl. Java gets the data, passes it into Perl & then Perl can manipulate it to it's hearts content. It's even good for testing since we have canned JSON files with data.

Now if it was a Perl implementation in the JVM I think I'd be more interested; but for the moment I think I'll pass on these modules.