Re: newbie questions

amatijaca@xxxxxxxxx writes:

> Hello there,
>
> I have decided to re-visit Lisp and try to re-learn it.

Congratulations!

> My questions about lisp, and LispWorks:
>
> 1) How does one connect from a running J2EE application to an
> instance of LispWorks ? I believe the LispWorks Orb product is
> such a product, but I am not 100% sure. I am interested in both
> types of integration -- where a Java application instantiates an
> instance of LispWorks, and where a continual LispWorks daemon is
> running, and listening on a TCP socket (SSL and non-SSL 'plain'),
> receiving Lisp commands and executing them. and returning back
> results.
>
> 2) Furthermore, if the Lisp instance portion of this hybrid is
> running, can it persist it's running environment at any time ?
> For example, if the "data is code" paradigm of lisp is used, and
> the actual lisp application has grown during a 24 hour of continual
> running, can it save that "knowledge" (save itself?) to a file,
> so that when it re-starts, it can automatically reload that
> enviornment (learned patterns for example)???
>
> 3) Is there a good example somewhere, where Lisp has been used
> in an enterprise scale project? How does one architect large
> Lisp projects where a Lisp portion integrates seamlessly within
> the enterprise?
>
> Thank you for your patience with all these newbie questions..

These are *NOT* newbie questions! That's a pretty ambitious
undertaking. There are several ways to accomplish the tasks you have
set out, but all of them require extensions to the base language. I
suggest scaling back a bit.

I have used Lisp in an enterprise scale project. We used it as the
middle layer in a 3-tier application. The bottom level was an OODBMS
that was integrated with Lisp and the client layer was a Java applet
talking an ad-hoc protocol across TCP/IP.
.

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