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    <refnamediv>
        <refname>javasci v1 limitations</refname>
        <refpurpose>Why javasci v1 is now deprecated ?</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>
    <refsection>
        <title>Description</title>
        <para>The version V1 of javasci has some important limitations:</para>
        <itemizedlist>
            <listitem>To retrieve any variable from the Scilab language, knowing the type of the variable is mandatory a priori.</listitem>
            <listitem>Only a few types are managed by the interface (boolean, double, complex and string).</listitem>
            <listitem>Lack of consistency between Scilab and Java. For example, in Scilab, a scalar (matrix of [1,1]) is a matrix. In the Java interface, there are two different datatypes (example: SciDouble and SciDoubleArray).</listitem>
            <listitem>There is no serialization possible on most of the datatype.</listitem>
            <listitem>Calling a Scilab function can be done only with the Exec method and increases the complexity of the retrieval of multiple output arguments.</listitem>
            <listitem>The package name does not follow the package naming rules of Scilab and the Scilab Java checkstyle.</listitem>
            <listitem>Hard to manage graphics windows (this problem is not addressed yet in Javasci v2)</listitem>
            <listitem>No interaction with the event loop (this problem is not addressed yet in Javasci v2)</listitem>
            <listitem>Cannot manage several instances of Scilab (this problem is not addressed yet in Javasci v2)</listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
    </refsection>
    <refsection role="see also">
        <title>See also</title>
        <simplelist type="inline">
            <member>
                Browse <link type="remote" linkend="javasci/javadoc/index.html">the documentation of Javasci v2.</link> (this will open the web browser).
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="compile_and_run_javasci_v2">Compile and run with Javasci</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="javasci_faq_v2">Javasci FAQ</link>
            </member>
        </simplelist>
    </refsection>
    <refsection>
        <title>History</title>
        <revhistory>
            <revision>
                <revnumber>5.4.0</revnumber>
                <revdescription>
                    Javasci v1 is removed.
                </revdescription>
            </revision>
        </revhistory>
    </refsection>
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