Cross-Paradigm Interoperability Between Jadescript and Java

Jadescript is a recent language for practical agent-oriented programming that aims at easing the development of multi-agent systems for real-world applications. Normally, these applications require extensive and structured reuse of existing software modules, which are commonly developed using object-oriented or legacy technologies. Jadescript has been originally designed to ease the translation to Java and, as such, it natively eases the interoperability with Java, and therefore, with mainstream and legacy technologies. This paper overviews the features that have been recently added to Jadescript to support effective two-way interoperability with Java. Moreover, this paper thoroughly discusses the main ideas behind such features by framing them in a comparison with related work, and by outlining possible directions for further developments.