Java Prolog Interface

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new Java-Prolog interface that enables persistent interaction and combines features from existing solutions, offering flexibility, ease of use, and support for popular Prolog engines.

Contribution

It presents a modern, flexible Java-Prolog interface that integrates advanced features, including persistence, functional programming support, and a user-friendly API.

Findings

Supports interaction with multiple Prolog engines

Implemented as a Java 1.6 javax.script interface

Available on GitHub and Maven Central

Abstract

There are many initiatives in presents-days for interaction between Java and Prolog programming languages. These initiatives allow combine two programming paradigms, Object Oriented Programming and Logic Programming. Every proposed interface has specifics features depending of the final use. The present paper introduces a new Java Prolog Interface to be use for Prolog persistence interacting from Java side and functional programming from Prolog side. To support this interaction, the most advanced solutions implements interlanguages data type mappings between Java objects and Prolog terms. Java Prolog Interface is a modern solution that take the best features from existing solutions and combine all in one. It' s more flexible, adaptive and have an Application Provider Interface (API) easy to use. JPI implement the javax.script interface include in Java from version 1.6. The project like existing solutions have an implementation for the most popular open source Prolog Engines. Is hosted on GitHub source code management at Prolobjectlink repository and deploy the resulting artifacts on Maven Central repository. The project have a web page too hosted on GitHub.