Bug#590966: RFP: libdynalang-java -- interoperable metaobject protocols for dynamic languages running on a Java Virtual Machine

[Torsten Werner <twerner@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : libdynalang-java
  Version         : 0.4
  Upstream Author : Attila Szegedi
* URL             : http://dynalang.sourceforge.net/
* License         : Apache-2.0
  Programming Lang: Java
  Description     : interoperable metaobject protocols for dynamic languages running on a JVM

This library aims to make it possible for objects created by a runtime for one
dynamic language to be passed to and manipulated by a different dynamic
language, running within the same JVM. More generally, it aims to provide a
facility where an arbitrary system (usually a language runtime) can intuitively
manipulate any arbitrary object model built atop of Java objects (usually the
native object model of some other language).

Basically, it provides a unified mechanism that all dynamic languages on the
JVM can use to inter-operably manipulate their own objects as well as objects
from any other language that also uses this mechanism. 


The subcomponent 'mop' of dynalang is needed for JRuby. But it currently FTBFS:
<https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=973663&aid=3037150&group_id=200472>.


Torsten