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anon
anon

Reputation:

How can I embed Lua in Java?

Is LuaJava a must for this? Or can I embed Lua into Java without it?

Upvotes: 54

Views: 69398

Answers (4)

Ben Ziegler
Ben Ziegler

Reputation: 431

LuaJ is easy to embed in Java. I did have to change a few lines of their source to get it to work how I expected (it didn't require the IO library automatically).

http://sourceforge.net/projects/luaj/

Upvotes: 30

lhf
lhf

Reputation: 72312

Try also kahlua and Mochalua.

Upvotes: 12

nos
nos

Reputation: 229058

Lua is a C library, you can embed it in Java but you'll have to interface the java virtual machine and Lua with some C code.

The LuaJava authors have already done that work - you're better off using that than writing your own.

Upvotes: 2

Manfred Moser
Manfred Moser

Reputation: 29912

There is http://www.keplerproject.org/luajava/manual.html, but essentially lua is more suitable for integration with C. There are a bunch of other scripting languages with good java integration around though. Consider groovy, jruby or jython for starters.

Upvotes: 2

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