Good evening, as a project at university, I have to create a java application which:
-simulates the Scratch framework (providing the user an envirnment to create a “pseudo” scratch application
- then “translate” the Scratch's blocks into java programming language.

The purpose of this project is to provide a “middle-link” from the children approach to learn programming concepts (which is provided by Scratch) and the “Brute-Force”, adult approach (take the book and study it).
In this way, teen-agers can start learning the basic java programming language concepts in a step by step approach.

Now what I'd like to do, instead of creating my own pseudo-scratch interface, is to connect directly to the real-Scratch interface, using the blocks already provided, and then create an application to translate the user project into java programming language.

The point is:
is it there a way to comunicate with the Scratch interface?

thank you for your help!

i like the idea!