Geoffrey Fox, Xiaoming Li
NPAC at Syracuse University
Zheng Qiang, Wu Zhigang
Computer Science Department 
Syracuse, NY 13244, {gcf,lxm}@npac.syr.edu
Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin, 150001, China, {zq,wzg}@pactpc.hit.edu.cn
July 20, 1997
This is a report on a prototype of a FORTRAN 77 to Java converter, f2j. Translation issues are identified, approaches are presented, a URL is provided for interested readers to download the package, and some unsolved problems are brought up. F2j allows value added to some of the investment on FORTRAN code, in particular, those well established FORTRAN libraries for scientific and engineering computation.
Key words: FORTRAN, Java, Automatic Translation
Acknowledgement: The authors would like to thank the referees of this paper and attendants of the Workshop on Java for Science and Engineering, where the paper was presented, for their insightful comments.