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| <title>Commons JEXL JSR-223 (scripting) Reference</title> |
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| <body> |
| <section name="Overview"> |
| <p> |
| Commons JEXL includes JSR-223 (javax.script) support. |
| The binary jar includes the scripting factory |
| and the services definition javax.script.ScriptEngineFactory, |
| so no special configuration is needed. |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| <section name="Script engine support"> |
| <p> |
| The provided script engine implements the following: |
| <ul> |
| <li>Language names: "JEXL", "Jexl", "jexl"</li> |
| <li>Extensions: ".jexl"</li> |
| <li>Mime-types: "application/x-jexl"</li> |
| </ul> |
| The implementation adds an instance of |
| <a href="http://commons.apache.org/jexl/apidocs/org/apache/commons/jexl/scripting/JexlScriptObject.html">JexlScriptObject</a> |
| to the engine context as the variable "JEXL". |
| This gives scripts easier access to various items such as System.out and a logger. |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| <section name="Using the JSR-223 JEXL test application"> |
| <p> |
| The binary release includes a command-line application which can be used to exercise the JSR-223 script engine. |
| For example: |
| <source>java -cp commons-jexl-2.0.jar;commons-logging-1.1.1.jar[;bsf-api-3.0.jar] org.apache.commons.jexl2.scripting.Main script.jexl</source> |
| If a single argument is provided, then that is assumed to be the name of a script file; |
| otherwise, the application prompts for script input to be evaluated. |
| In both cases, the variable "args" contains the command-line arguments. |
| [Note that Java 1.5 does not include javax.script support; you will need to use the Apache BSF API jar as indicated.] |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| <section name="Using JEXL with JSR-223 on Java 1.5"> |
| <p> |
| In order to use JEXL via JSR-223 on Java 1.5, you need to add Apache BSF-API 3.0 jar to the classpath. |
| JEXL also requires Commons Logging on the classpath. |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| <section name="Using JEXL with JSR-223 on Java 1.6+"> |
| <p> |
| JSR-223 support is included with Java 1.6+. |
| JEXL requires Commons Logging, which needs to be included in the path. |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| <section name="JSR-223 support classes"> |
| <p> |
| The classes used to support JSR-223 scripting access are: |
| <ul> |
| <li>org.apache.commons.jexl2.scripting.JexlScriptEngineFactory - the factory</li> |
| <li>org.apache.commons.jexl2.scripting.JexlScriptEngine - the engine</li> |
| <li>org.apache.commons.jexl2.scripting.JexlScriptObject - class used to give scripts access to JEXL objects</li> |
| </ul> |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| </body> |
| </document> |
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