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| <author email="chuck@topsail.org">Chuck Murcko</author> |
| <author email="victor.j.orlikowski@alumni.duke.edu">Victor Orlikowski</author> |
| <author email="rony@apache.org">Rony G. Flatscher</author> |
| <title>Bean Scripting Framework</title> |
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| <section name="Bean Scripting Framework"> |
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| <p> |
| Bean Scripting Framework (BSF) is a set of Java classes which provides scripting |
| language support within Java applications, and access to Java |
| objects and methods from scripting languages. BSF allows one to |
| write JSPs in languages other than Java while providing access to the Java |
| class library. In addition, BSF permits any Java application to be implemented |
| in part (or dynamically extended) by a language that is embedded within it. |
| This is achieved by providing an API that permits calling scripting |
| language engines from within Java, as well as an object registry that exposes |
| Java objects to these scripting language engines. |
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| </section> |
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| <section name="Supported Languages"> |
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| <p> |
| BSF supports several scripting languages currently: |
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| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/">Javascript (using Rhino ECMAScript, from the Mozilla project)</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <a href="http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/netrexx/">NetRexx</a> (an extension of the IBM REXX scripting language in Java) |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <a href="http://jython.sourceforge.net/">Python (using Jython) </a> |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <a href="http://tcljava.sourceforge.net/">Tcl (using Jacl)</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <a href="http://xalan.apache.org">XSLT Stylesheets (as a component of Apache XML project's Xalan and Xerces)</a> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </p> |
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| <p> In addition, the following languages are supported with their own BSF engines: |
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| <ul> |
| <li> |
| Java (using <a href="http://www.beanshell.org/">BeanShell</a>, from the BeanShell project) |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <a href="http://groovy.codehaus.org/">Groovy</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <a href="http://www.ulfdittmer.com/jlog/index.html">JLog</a> (<a href="http://jlogic.sourceforge.net/">PROLOG implemented in Java</a>) |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <a href="http://jruby.codehaus.org/">JRuby</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <a href="http://www.judoscript.com">JudoScript</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <a href="http://objectscript.sourceforge.net/">ObjectScript</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <a href="http://www.oorexx.org/">ooRexx (Open Object Rexx)</a>, using |
| <a href="http://wi.wu-wien.ac.at/rgf/rexx/bsf4rexx/current/">BSF4Rexx</a>. |
| </li> |
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| </ul> |
| </p> |
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| <p> |
| Information on where to obtain scripting languages for use with BSF is |
| available on the <a href="projects.html">Related Projects</a> page. |
| </p> |
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| </section> |
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| <section name="Documentation"> |
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| <p> |
| You can view the documentation for the current release (Jakarta BSF 2.4) |
| <a href="manual.html">online</a> |
| </p> |
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| <p> |
| Documentation and examples are included in the source and binary distributions. |
| </p> |
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| </section> |
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| <section name="Latest Release"> |
| <p> |
| You can download the latest release: |
| </p> |
| <ul> |
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| <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/jakarta-bsf/release/v2.4/bin/"> |
| Download the binary release |
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| </section> |
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| <section name="Development Release"> |
| <p> |
| You can download the latest development release: |
| </p> |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/jakarta-bsf/dev/v2.4.0/bin/"> |
| Download the development binary release</a> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/jakarta-bsf/dev/v2.4.0/src/"> |
| Download the development source release</a> |
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| </section> |
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| <section name="Nightly Builds"> |
| <p> |
| If you wish to use the latest BSF features, you can try downloading a nightly |
| build from <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-bsf/nightly/">here</a> |
| </p> |
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| </section> |
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| <section name="Towards BSF 3.0"> |
| <p> |
| We are beginning to discuss design details for BSF 3.0. Please |
| read the latest <a href="bsfnews.html">BSF news</a> for more details. |
| </p> |
| </section> |
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| <section name="Get Involved"> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/getinvolved/getinvolvedindex.html">Get Involved</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/getinvolved/mail.html">Join Mailing Lists</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bsf-dev&r=1&w=2">Search the Dev Mailing List</a> |
| </li> |
| <li><a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bsf-user&r=1&w=2">Search the User Mailing List</a> |
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