User`s manual

iv Contents

Calling MATLAB From a Fortran Application . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11

Attaching to an Existing MATLAB Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15

Compiling and Linking Engine Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-17

Masking Floating-Point Exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-17

Compiling and Linking on UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-18

Compiling and Linking on Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-19

Calling Java from MATLAB

Using Java from MATLAB: An Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3

Java Interface Is Integral to MATLAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3

Benefits of the MATLAB Java Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3

Who Should Use the MATLAB Java Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3

To Learn More About Java Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3

Platform Support for the Java Virtual Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Bringing Java Classes into MATLAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5

Sources of Java Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5

Defining New Java Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5

Making Java Classes Available to MATLAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6

Loading Java Class Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7

Simplifying Java Class Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8

Creating and Using Java Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10

Constructing Java Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10

Concatenating Java Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12

Saving and Loading Java Objects to MAT-Files . . . . . . . . . . . 5-14

Finding the Public Data Fields of an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-15

Accessing Private and Public Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-16

Determining the Class of an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-17

Invoking Methods on Java Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-19

Using Java and MATLAB Calling Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-19

Invoking Static Methods on Java Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-21

Obtaining Information About Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-22