Prolog within Java

Appeared in Volume 10/1, February 1997

delaet@uia.ua.ac.be
Geert De Laet
6th October 1996

Are there any Prologs which can be called from within Java?

pmoura@mat.uc.pt
Paulo Moura
6th October 1996

Take a look at BinProlog 5.25 at:
ftp://clement.info.umoncton.ca/BinProlog/

mary@amzi.com
Mary Kroening
7th October 1996

Amzi! provides a Java class that allows you to issue queries, assert/retract facts, exchange data, build/decompose terms, etc. You can find out more at http://www.amzi.com. An article about this is in the November 1996 issue of PC AI magazine (http://www.pcai.com). The current version supports the Sun Java JDK 1.0.2.

Amzi! also has support for sockets, which allows you to access many types of Internet services, including Java, FTP, HTTP and Mail. Our CGI Interface lets you embed Prolog components in any web-based application. Both of these are available from http://www.amzi.com.

carsten@pdc.dk
Carsten Christoffersen
8th October 1996

Visual Prolog will very soon have sockets support, and this means that you will be able to call Visual Prolog from within Java.

Visual Prolog will include a number of facilities for building Internet-enabled applications. There will be support for the TCP/IP, FTP and HTTP protocols.

It is also possible to put a Visual Prolog program into a DLL attached to the Microsoft Internet server, and there are high-level facilities for generating HTML.

When it's ready, the sockets system will be freely available on PDC's FTP server.