Calling clojure from java

Question

Most of the top google hits for \"calling clojure from java\" are outdated and recommend using clojure.lang.RT to compile the source code. Could you help with a

Answer 1

This works with Clojure 1.5.0:

public class CljTest {
    public static Object evalClj(String a) {
        return clojure.lang.Compiler.load(new java.io.StringReader(a));
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new clojure.lang.RT(); // needed since 1.5.0        
        System.out.println(evalClj("(+ 1 2)"));
    }
}