+1. Refactoring the Rhino core to be extensible is the proper solution IMO. However, the use of implementation inheritance in Rhino is going to be a major problem: virtually every class that I originally extended has changed significantly in incompatible ways. I'm really not sure what can be done about that.
Regards, Chris -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 5:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Syncing rhino ... > > I would say then that it would be nice to go to the Rhino > community with > > suggestions *and* some code. I have been looking at it more thouroughly > > and as of now I think that the real problem is not really Rhino missing > > continuations, but Rhino being coded not to be extensible: most classes > > we need to extend are final, and members we need access to are private. > > So far Cristopher and I went quite the "easy" way, changing > accesses and > > declarations just when needed, but it won't take a huge effort to > > refactor the few classes we need in order (adding > getter/setters and the > > like) to make them really extensible. > > > > Once this is done, the continuation-specific code might happily live in > > the Cocoon CVS as a Rhino extension if the Mozilla community is not > > willing to accept it (and actually I don't really see a real reason for > > them to include it ATM since Cocoon would be the only customer > for that) > > and we might control it with Gump guarding against back-incompatible > > changes. > > > > This will take no more than a few hours of (boring) coding, and I'm > > willing undertake the effort if it sounds reasonable to us all, and > > produce a first working extensible JavaScript interpreter that might be > > committed in Rhino. Meanwhile, we can start approaching the Rhino guys > > and see what they think aboout it. > > > > How does it sound? > > I love the incremental approach. +1 > > -- > Stefano. Great all around. If you lay out a general road map of what needs to be done, I'd like to try to help - but won't see daylight enough to do so for about a week. If you're not done by then, count me in. Chris, is this a plan with "teeth"? Geoff
