Kawa, the Java-based Scheme system

11 March 1998

• Features
• Getting Kawa
• Building and installing Kawa
  • Getting and running Java
  • Installing and using the binary distribution
  • Installing and using the source distribution
• How to start up and run Kawa
  • Command-line arguments
  • Running a Command Interpreter in a new Window
  • Exiting Kawa
• Features of R5RS not implemented
• Extensions
  • Multiple values
  • Special named constants
  • Keywords
  • Optional and keyword lambda parameters
  • Logical Number Operations
  • Records
  • File System Interface
  • Ports
  • Signalling and recovering from exceptions
  • Eval and Environments
  • Quantities
  • Threads
  • Standard Types
  • Processes
  • Miscellaneous
• Compiling Scheme code to byte-codes
  • Compiling Scheme to an archive file
  • Compiling Scheme to a set of .class files
  • Compiling Scheme to a standalone application
• The Scheme-Java interface
  • Scheme types in Java
  • Calling Java methods from Scheme
  • Low-level Operations on Object Fields
  • Low-level Operations on Java Arrays
  • Loading a ModuleBody
  • Evaluating Scheme expressions from Java
• Reporting Bugs and the Kawa Mailing List
• License