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Clojure Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Clojure Programming Cookbook Handle every problem you come across in the world of Clojure programming with this expert collection of recipes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785885037
Length 618 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nicolas Modrzyk Nicolas Modrzyk
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Makoto Hashimoto Makoto Hashimoto
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Live Programming with Clojure FREE CHAPTER 2. Interacting with Collections 3. Clojure Next 4. File Access and the Network 5. Working with Other Languages 6. Concurrency and Parallelism 7. Advanced Tips 8. Web Applications 9. Testing 10. Deployment and DevOps

Calling Java methods and accessing Java objects from Clojure

Though the Clojure language looks quite different from Java, Clojure provides full access to Java. This enables Clojure to make use of huge Java assets very efficiently. In general, calling Java assets from Clojure is much simpler and results in less code than calling them from Java. Another big advantage is REPL, which makes programming fun and faster.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we don't use an external library, so the only necessary thing is to start REPL to run code.

How to do it...

We will learn how to instantiate objects, call instance and class methods, access fields and inner classes, and reference classes. Then, we will learn how to manipulate Java arrays.

Instantiating objects

To instantiate an object from a class, use the following syntax:

(ClassName. arg1 arg2 ...) 

For instance, to instantiate a new String object the syntax is as follows:

(String. "abc") 
;;=> "abc" 
(Integer. 1) 
;;=> 1 ...
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