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Most of the top google hits for \"calling clojure from java\" are outdated and recommend using clojure.lang.RT to compile the source code.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

If the use case is to include a JAR built with Clojure in a Java application, I have found having a separate namespace for the interface between the two worlds to be beneficial:

(ns example-app.interop
  (:require [example-app.core :as core])

;; This example covers two-way communication: the Clojure library 
;; relies on the wrapping Java app for some functionality (through
;; an interface that the Clojure library provides and the Java app
;; implements) and the Java app calls the Clojure library to perform 
;; work. The latter case is covered by a class provided by the Clojure lib.
;; 
;; This namespace should be AOT compiled.

;; The interface that the java app can implement
(gen-interface
  :name com.example.WeatherForecast
  :methods [[getTemperature [] Double]])

;; The class that the java app instantiates
(gen-class
  :name com.example.HighTemperatureMailer
  :state state
  :init init
  ;; Dependency injection - take an instance of the previously defined
  ;; interface as a constructor argument
  :constructors {[com.example.WeatherForecast] []}
  :methods [[sendMails [] void]])

(defn -init [weather-forecast]
  [[] {:weather-forecast weather-forecast}])

;; The actual work is done in the core namespace
(defn -sendMails
  [this]
  (core/send-mails (.state this)))

The core namespace can use the injected instance to accomplish its tasks:

(ns example-app.core)

(defn send-mails 
  [{:keys [weather-forecast]}]
  (let [temp (.getTemperature weather-forecast)] ...)) 

For testing purposes, the interface can be stubbed:

(example-app.core/send-mails 
  (reify com.example.WeatherForecast (getTemperature [this] ...)))