Trouble with armed bear common lisp--calling user defined classes from repl?
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I'm very new to lisp and pretty new to java as well. I was working on a trivial game in java and I thought that it would be interesting to interact with the game as I was coding it through the REPL. I have been following Practical Common Lisp and I have knowledge of basic function structure. I started using armed bear common lisp--an implementation that runs on the java virtual machine--and was able to code some basic functions for creating guis, such as:


    (defconstant +jframe+ "javax.swing.JFrame")

    (defun make-frame (length width &key visible)
      "Create a +jframe+"
      (let ((frame (jnew (jconstructor +jframe+))))
        (jcall (jmethod +jframe+ "setSize" "int" "int")
	       frame length width)
        (if visible (frame-is-visible t frame))
        frame))
However I can not figure out how to access user defined classes from lisp. The implementation as a whole seems pretty poorly documented, and I'm finding difficulty getting started using java specific things from within lisp.  For example, I have a compiled character class called "Character". But when I call (jclass "Character") I get a "class not found" error. Is it possible to make abcl aware of my classes from within lisp?
