http://www.perlmonks.org?node_id=19836

kapper has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am in the midst of creating a typesetting system in Java called SpanDeX =)
For this, it would be great to be able to acces small perl functions for some purposes...

does anybody know of any packages for interfacing perl from java?

I know i could just execute my perl scripts like regular programs and grab the output, but it would be nice with a little more direct access....