There are many initiatives in presents-days for interaction between Java and Prolog programming languages. These initiatives allow combine two programming paradigms, Object Oriented Programming and Logic Programming. Every proposed interface has specifics features depending of the final use. The present paper introduces a new Java Prolog Interface (JPI) to be used for Prolog persistence interacting from Java side and functional programming from Prolog side. JPI define a layered architecture where each component represents a library to connect the final user application with some specific Prolog Engine. The project equals to existing solutions have an implementation for the most popular open source Prolog Engines like SWI, YAP, TuProlog, JLog and JTrolog. To support Java and Prolog interaction an inter-languages data type mappings between Java objects and Prolog terms is implemented. This API have a logic development workflow to create Terms, Engines, Query and some builder classes to help Clauses and Query creation. JPI implement the javax.script interface include in Java from version 1.6. Using a Java Prolog Benchmark test and evaluate different Prolog Engines implementations to determine the performance over JPI. The best performance is obtained using pure Java Prolog Engines respect to Native Engines. JPI is a modern solution that take the best features from existing solutions and combine all in one. It’s more flexible, adaptive and have an Application Provider Interface (API) easy to use. Provides clear and concise access to Prolog and simplifies the integration of predicates in Prolog and provides an automated object-to-term mapping mechanism.
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