On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Chan Ngo <chan.ngo2203@gmail.com> wrote:

> An alternative, if you want to do as follows:
> - Compile Java program to an executable (not jar file)
> - Call this executable and get the return values from it
>
> So you can think about Unix module in OCaml, you can use the standard I/O
> to realize a communication channel between your OCaml code and the
> executable Java.
> https://ocaml.github.io/ocamlunix/ocamlunix.html
>
>
If the data to be exchanged is structurally complex, then this technique
becomes difficult; a cross-platform serialization library can be very
helpful for generating appropriate serialization code in multiple
languages.  As one example, Cap'n Proto has bindings for both Java and
OCaml: https://capnproto.org/otherlang.html

Paul