in the past months I have been working - time permitting - on a new version of a BSF engine for the programming/scripting/macro languages Rexx and Object Rexx. Rexx is pervasive on mainframes and got some popularity on Amiga and more "seriously" on OS/2. There are numerous commercial and free opensource implementations of it for practically every operating and hardware system there is, although the community cannot compete in numbers with e.g. Perl. Nevertheless, it is a very important segment for system integrators and automation of many applications (even applications written for Rexx itself).
The work is practically done and a version got created for the IBM BSF (2.2) and Apache's BSF (2.3). At the moment the gamma version (including sources, documentation, samples and test examples) can be retrieved from: <http://wi.wu-wien.ac.at/rgf/rexx/bsf4rexx/dist.20030601/>.
There is an article giving an overview of the Rexx and Object Rexx support at <http://wi.wu-wien.ac.at/rgf/rexx/bsf4rexx/dist.20030601/orx14_bsf4rexx-av.pdf>, as of 2003-06-01. [The Object Rexx support makes Java look like Object Rexx, so non-Java coders should be able with this to use Java by studying the documentation of the classes only.]
Now, that the project is practically finished, I am interested to submit the Rexx BSF engine to the BSF project. Yet, I cannot find out what steps I must undertake to succeed with this. So please, those of you (maintainers of BSF, project leaders of BSF et.al.) in the know, please tell me about the next steps I need to undertake to make this happen (all of the Java and C++ source code carries the Apache license for the Apache version; the IBM version is LGPL, but could be changed to any other license by me).
Thanks in advance for your help, regards
---rony
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