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+## Copyright (C) 2007, 2013 Michael Goffioul
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn  {Built-in Function} {@var{ret} =} java_invoke (@var{obj}, @var{methodname})
+## @deftypefnx {Built-in Function} {@var{ret} =} java_invoke (@var{obj}, @var{methodname}, @var{arg1}, @dots{})
+## Invoke the method @var{methodname} on the Java object @var{obj} with the
+## arguments @var{arg1}, @dots{}  For static methods, @var{obj} can be a
+## string representing the fully qualified name of the corresponding class. 
+## The function returns the result of the method invocation.
+## 
+## When @var{obj} is a regular Java object, structure-like indexing can be
+## used as a shortcut syntax.  For instance, the two following statements are
+## equivalent
+## 
+## @example
+## @group
+##   ret = java_invoke (x, "method1", 1.0, "a string")
+##   ret = x.method1 (1.0, "a string")
+## @end group
+## @end example
+## 
+## @seealso{javaMethod, javaObject}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function retval = java_invoke (obj, methodname, varargin)
+
+  persistent warned = false;
+  if (! warned)
+    warned = true;
+    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
+             "java_invoke is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave, please use javaMethod instead");
+  endif
+  
+  if (nargin < 2)
+    print_usage ();
+  endif
+
+  retval = javaMethod (methodname, obj, varargin{:});
+
+endfunction
+