Dear fellow Rexxers,
since a few minutes there is a new beta of BSF4ooRexx available from
Sourceforge, namely from:
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsf4oorexx/files/beta/20190203/>.
BSF4ooRexx is an ooRexx external function package that allows Rexx programs to
exploit all Java
classes and interact with Java as if it was ooRexx! Requiring the supplied
ooRexx package "BSF.CLS"
camouflages the strictly typed, case-sensitive programming language Java as the
dynamically typed,
case-insensitive language Rexx, making it considerably easy to interface with
Java.
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Attention! This version of BSF4ooRexx does not accept abstract Java classes in
bsf.import(some_java_class) anymore!
Importing Java classes allows one to use the ooRexx new-message to create Java
instances (the
imported Java class will be proxied as an ooRexx class and getting the class
method new defined for
it). Clearly, abstract Java classes cannot be instantiated, hence this change!
The error message
will point out the exact reason and a solution, namely to use
bsf.loadClass(some_java_class)
instead, which then allows one to access the static fields and the concrete
static methods of the
supplied Java class.
Although I have gone through all the sample code and Rexx packages coming with
BSF4ooRexx to find
usages of bsf.importClass() with abstract Java classes and fix it, it may be
the case that there are
samples that have gone unnoticed so far. In this case please file a bug report
at
<https://sourceforge.net/p/bsf4oorexx/bugs/>.
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If after installing BSF4ooRexx you choose the menu option "BSF4ooRexx ->
Samples" a folder/finder
window will open and display the Rexx samples. Locate the file "index.html" and
click on it: this
will briefly describe each Rexx sample, such that you are able to quickly get
an overview.
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Also I would like to point out to you the latest beta versions of ooRexx 5.0
which introduces many
valuable and helpful new features:
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/oorexx/files/oorexx/5.0.0beta/>. Regularly
check for new builds
there.
The quality of the current beta versions of ooRexx 5.0 is of type "release",
includes many
interesting new features and contains many bug fixes over ooRexx 4.2.
Also please note: the BSF4ooRexx package for MacOSX already includes a fresh
build of ooRexx 5.0
beta, revision 11636.
If you have any questions please come forward and ask!
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Cheers,
---rony
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