Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
... P.S.: There exists a version ASF BSF 3.0 (currently in beta), which is a total rewrite from scratch matching Java's 6 "javax.script". However, that package can be deployed on Java 1.3 and up. This means that in principle it would be possible to add Java 6 style scripting to OOo, if OOo was taking advantage of BSF 3.0, even if using earlier versions of Java! If interested, we could talk about this on another thread.
That (supporting any JSR-223 Java Script API engine) is what IFCX Wings and GroovyForOpenOffice are doing. I've proposed (in my OOo Community Improvement Program entry) that OOo extend the Scripting Framework along those lines.
Note that JSR-223 (javax.script) does not require Java 6, it works fine with Java 5 which is all that IFCX Wings & G4OO require. Java 6 is fine of course, but pre-Java 5 doesn't work because unfortunately they used generics in the API.
I'm also interested in working out IDE integration so that OOo macros in these JVM-based languages can be editted and debugged directly in OOo without having to set up an external client/server style project.
So count me interested! Where do we find your BSF-based work? Jim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
