On top of that, direct java interop is not bad at all. Here is a talk on it: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Clojure-Java-Interop http://www.infoq.com/prese

On top of that, direct java interop is not bad at all. Here is a talk on it: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Clojure-Java-Interop http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Clojure-Java-Interop I confess I haven't watched that talk yet and only remembered hearing about it as I wrote this. But I imagine it is a good Launchpad.