← index
Inside Java·04 November 2026·1 min read

Project Detroit: From Foreign Libraries to Foreign Language Runtimes

Interacting with foreign libraries from Java has never been easier, thanks to the Foreign Function Memory (FFM) API. But interacting with entire foreign language runtimes, like JavaScript or Python, remains hard.

python

Interacting with foreign libraries from Java has never been easier, thanks to the Foreign Function Memory (FFM) API. But interacting with entire foreign language runtimes, like JavaScript or Python, remains hard. Project Detroit paves a new way forward: instead of implementing bespoke language runtimes from scratch, it leverages FFM to embed industry-standard native runtimes like V8 and CPython in the safety and comfort of your Java application.

Reproduced from the Inside Java feed. No model was used to write this entry — follow the link for the full article.