1.0.0.0.4 Interfaces

A number of interfaces are available to link XSB to other systems. In UNIX systems XSB can be directly linked into C programs; in Windows-based system XSB can be linked into C programs through a DLL interface. On either class of operating system, C functions can be made callable from XSB either directly within a process, or using a socket library. XSB can also inter-communicate with Java through the InterProlog interface ^1.2 or using YJXSB. Within Interprolog, XSB and Java can be linked either through Java's JNI interface, or through sockets. XSB can access external data in a variety of ways: through an ODBC interface, through an Oracle interface, or through a variety of mechanisms to read data from flat files. These interfaces are all described in Volume 2 of this manual.