ABCL-CONTRIB
============

The contributions to Armed Bear constitute Common Lisp only code that
is potentially useful for system construction and distribution.

quicklisp-abcl

    Loads and installs the Quicklisp library manager from the network
    if not locally present.

abcl-asdf 

    ABCL specific extensions to ASDF, including resolution of binary
    JVM artifacts cached from the network according to Maven metadata
    with the derived transitive relationships.
    

asdf-jar

    Package ASDF system definitions into JVM artifacts for
    distribution
    

jss
    
    A higher-order, more Lisp oriented interface for constructing Lisp
    interfaces to existing binary code libraries available for the JVM
    built on the primitives provided by the JAVA package.  Used in the
    [lsw2][] Semantic Web package for dealing with OWL2 ontologies in
    RDF(S) and other notations.
    
[lsw2]: http://code.google.com/p/lsw2/    
    
jfli

    The "original" higher-order JVM interface descended from Rich
    Hickey's work on the JVM before Clojure.  This implementation
    currently uses a fork of the public [JFLI][] API that uses the
    java interop of the ABCL JAVA package instead of the JNI
    interface.
    
[jfli]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jfli/
   
mvn
    A collection of various useful JVM artifacts downloaded and cached by
    the Aether Maven connector.  Requires the maven-3.0.3 executable "mvn"
    (or "mvn.bat" under MSFT Windows) to be in the current processes's
    path.
    
    mvn currently includes only the single artifact:
    
    jna
         Cache, from the network if necessary, the jna-4.2.2.jar binary
         artifact in the current JVM process, allowing the
         bootstrapping of dynamically linking to shared executables on
         the host platform.

# Colophon

Mark <evenson.not.org@gmail.com>
Created:  2011-09-11
Revised:  2016-10-01
<> abcl:documents <release#abcl-contrib.jar> .