Hi Tom,
maybe I've missed something and but is ooRex a seperate scripting language
Yes! ooRexx is opensource and free and available pre-compiled for some
Linuxes, Solaris and Windows; homepage: <http://www.ooRexx.org>. (It is
set up to work with autotools, so building for additional platforms is
possible; there is even an experimental version for MacOS X up and
running ported by René Jansen.)
ooRexx was introduced in opensource and free this spring by the
non-profit SIG "Rexx Language Association", <http://www.rexxla.org>. The
original source-code stems from the professional IBM product "Object
REXX" and was handed over to RexxLA almost a year ago, to create an
opensource version of it; it's licensed under CPL 1.0, which is more
liberal than L|GPL.
The present state for the OOo support is beta, an official announcement
is pending (depends on the finishing of a set of nutshell examples in
form of a Bachelor paper by a student at the Wirtschaftsuniversität
Wien, who has been letting his work proof-read for his English).
The enabling infrastructure is BSF4Rexx (BSF, "Bean Scritping
Framework", cf. <http://jakarta.apache.org/bsf>) which allows Java to
use ooRexx (cf. eg. a brand new introductionary article at
<http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=418864>, "Employing
Rexx as a Scripting Language for Java") and the other way round: ooRexx
to use Java. With OOo 2.0 the (Java) scripting framework is used to
plug-in ooRexx (cf.
<http://wi.wu-wien.ac.at/rgf/rexx/bsf4rexx/dist.20050830/tmp/ooRexx4OOo.html>).
and if yes should we add it to our snippet collection.
Yes, that would be great (the language's name should be "ooRexx").
Again, please bear a little bit until the official availability and
support for OOo can be announced.
Regards,
---rony
P.S.: Of course, if there are already questions on OOo and ooRexx, then
please do not hesitate to ask, I will try my best to answer them!
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