Interop made easy & more in Truffle 0.11

[Jaroslav Tulach]

Hi,
the Truffle git repository[1] contains tag truffle-0.11 - what you can expect 
in this new version of Truffle API?

Matthias has been working hard on simplified interoperability API. Originally 
the interop required a lot of boiler plate code which can now be auto 
generated thanks to AcceptMessage[2] and its associated annotation processor.

Matthias also added new InteropException[3] and its subclasses to help people 
calling into foreign languages (via new sendXYZ methods in ForeignAccess[4]) 
to be ready for exceptional states and handle them appropriately.

Stefan contributed method to easily pass any language any configuration 
parameters[5] which is way more easy to use than so far preferred globalSymbol 
one.

Chris added a check whether given mime type is supported[6] - now you can find 
out if another language is installed in the system before sending it an empty 
snippet for evaluation.

Thanks to Gilles, the bits were just uploaded to Maven central[7]. Enjoy 
truffle-0.11!
-jt

PS: I'd like to release next version of Truffle at the end of March 2016[8].

[1] https://github.com/graalvm/truffle/tree/truffle-0.11
[2] http://lafo.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/javadoc/truffle/latest/com/oracle/truffle/api/interop/AcceptMessage.html
[3] 
http://lafo.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/javadoc/truffle/latest/com/oracle/truffle/api/interop/InteropException.html
[4] http://lafo.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/javadoc/truffle/latest/com/oracle/truffle/api/interop/ForeignAccess.html
[5] http://lafo.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/javadoc/truffle/latest/com/oracle/truffle/api/vm/PolyglotEngine.Builder.html#config-java.lang.String-java.lang.String-java.lang.Object-[6] http://lafo.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/javadoc/truffle/latest/com/oracle/truffle/api/TruffleLanguage.Env.html#isMimeTypeSupported-java.lang.String-[7] http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/oracle/truffle/truffle-api/0.11/
[8] +-3m: http://wiki.apidesign.org/wiki/Estimate