As with the post from the other day, tonight (this morning) has seen the two other core Clojang libraries get updates. The agent lib in particular is a cause for celebration, since there's been an out-standing issue with failing builds for the past year (a dep with AOT'ed classes was the primary suspect; unlike the vanilla class-not-found-due-to AOT'ed JAR file collisions, this one was particulaly nasty/unusual ... hadn't seen anything like it before). That issue is now closed and builds are successful again.

The agent is the means by which a JVM process can emulate the behaviour of an Erlang/OTP process (with regard to its messaging inbox, node name assignment, and other defaults set up automatically, keeping thigs simple for the developer).

The long-awaited fix allowed me to pump out the following agent releases:

• agent 0.4.0 for Erlang 19.2 and 19.3 (uses JInterface 1.7.1)
• agent 0.5.0 for Erlang 20.3 (uses JInterface 1.8.1)
• agent 0.6.0 for Erlang 21.0 (uses JInterface 1.9)

And then the clojang API releases that depended upon the different agent versions:

• clojang 0.4.0 for Erlang 19.2 and 19.3 (uses JInterface 1.7.1)
• clojang 0.5.0 for Erlang 20.3 (uses JInterface 1.8.1)
• clojang 0.6.0 for Erlang 21.0 (uses JInterface 1.9)

Still coming up ...

• Port more Erlang/Java examples to LFE/Clojure
• Demonstrate use with the Clojure Component library
• Demonstrate managing throw-away JVM instances from Erlang/LFE, managed via JMX