Can Soar be embedded?
Soar 8.6.0 addresses this problem most directly now (05/05). Paul Benjamin wrote: A student at Pace has embedded Soar within Java. There is a package called feather from NIST that implements a TclInterpreter class in Java, and the student extended that class to a SoarSession class. He used it to write a poker-playing Soar program. I also used it to connect Soar to our robot. With minor changes, it can be used to connect any Java system to Soar. His source, and all the package info, is at www.codeblitz.com/poker.html. Another option is to take the C library header files and run SWIG over them (www.swig.org). SWIG is able to generate wrapping code to interface Java, Perl, Tcl, Python, and others to any C/C++ library. There are several ways that Soar has been tied to other pieces of software. A now out of date overview is available from: Ritter, F. E. & Major, N. P. (1995). Useful mechanisms for developing simulations for cognitive models. AISB Quarterly, 91(Spring), 7-18. A list of ways
