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# THIS DOESN'T WORK WITH perl6-j AS IT BUILDS.
# To make it work the perl6-j executeable needs an additional entry in its Xbootclasspath argument,
# which points to the compiled .class file that's to be used.
# I don't see an obvious working solution for that problem.
psch@debvm:~/javatest$ cat A.java
import java.lang.System;

public class A {
    public void doIt(String what) {
        System.out.println(what + " is what we do.");
    }
}
psch@debvm:~/javatest$ javac A.java
psch@debvm:~/javatest$ perl6-j -e'use A:from<java>; my $a = A.new; $a.doIt("foo")'
foo is what we do.
psch@debvm:~/javatest$