Re: re-organizing the BSF source tree

[Bill Stoddard]

Bill Stoddard wrote:

Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:

"Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
 

BSF could, and probably should, be used to implement the language
  
attribute.

We did that internally for our JSP compiler back in '99. I thought
that got contributed to Jasper, but I could be wrong.
If it hasn't then definitely that's a worthwhile thing to do IMHO
as it allows any BSF language to be used to write a JSP.
Does anyone know for sure whether Jasper uses it or not?

Jasper does not use it and I really don't think using BSF in this role 
(as a way to script enable JSPs) is the 'right thing to do'. First 
major problem is abysmal performance. Second major problem is with 
debugging.  The second problem can probably be solved(?). I don't see 
how the first problem can be solved.

Bill 


Oh, one more thing pops to mind... use of scripting languages from the 
Java environment of JSP is rather unnatural.  Passing script variables 
back and forth between java and the scripting language environment is 
messy and needs some hacks to jasper. Chuck or Victor should be able to 
provide more detail.

Bill

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