Re: st: Java plugins. Experiences, pros and cons, when to use them?

[Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org>]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Christophe Kolodziejczyk wrote:

> Dear Statalister
> I would like to have some feedback from  anyone on the list who could
> share his or her experience with Java plugins. It is a new feature of
> Stata 13 and I haven't tried it yet. But I was wondering in which
> cases they might be useful and whether there is an advantage in terms
> of execution time compared to mata. I don't really see why Stata Corp
> has actually introduced them, but I would be happy to learn more about
> them :-).
> Best regards
> Christophe

I never tried The old C plugins because of the restriction noted on the 
Stata website:

  Note that a plugin cannot create a new Stata variable but will happily
  fill in one that you have created in Stata and set it to either missing,
  zero, or whatever.

It appears that Java plugins can create a new variable, which would be
a substantial benefit.

Daniel Feenberg

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