NDLI: Integrating Java and Prolog through generic methods and type inference

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Viroli, Mirko Cimadamore, Maurizio
Abstract	P@J is a framework, based on the tuProlog open-source engine, allowing Prolog code to be used as possible implementation of a Java method: Java annotations are used for specifying all the necessary information to fill the Java-Prolog gap. This framework is useful to inject a declarative, logic-based paradigm into mainstream object-oriented programming, so as to easily code functionalities related to automatic reasoning, adaptivity, and conciseness in expressing algorithms. In this paper, an extension of P@J is presented which improves the invocation technique for such Prolog-implemented methods. Java type inference of generic method calls is intensively used to automatically infer all the necessary paradigm mismatch information: this results in an elegant and concise invocation style, which further reduces the gap between Prolog goal satisfaction and Java method invocation. This new approach inspires some interesting applications: we show examples related to the implementation of abstract data types and parsers for context-free grammars.
Starting Page	198
Ending Page	205
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781595937537
DOI	10.1145/1363686.1363740
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2008-03-16
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Java Multiparadigm Prolog Wildcards Generics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Integrating Java and Prolog through generic methods and type inference