I'm happy to announce the first release (1.00) of the JSP Perl module,
an open source bridge between Perl and Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript
engines.
JSP is a datatype reflection engine and an object life cycle synchronizer.
JSP allows you to write programs using both languages at the same time.
Features:
* Objects and other values pass freely between interpreters. They
are encapsulated in specialized classes, giving them correct
semantics on their non-native interpreter. Values and objects and
are "alive".
* All Perl classes are exportable to JavaScript.
// Use DBI from javascript
Sys.install('DBI', 'DBI');
var dbh = DBI.connect(...);
dbh.prepare(sqlstement);
* Easy to build on supported javascript engines.
* Builds against SpiderMonkey 1.7.0 up to (unreleased) 1.8.5 (Gecko
1.9.3).
* Exceptions pass freely between interpreters. A language can
handle, in a native way, exceptions thrown from the other
language. In JavaScript you use /throw, try and catch/. In Perl
you use /die, eval and $@/. You can /cath/ a perl's /die/ and also
after an /eval, $@/ will be set to the error /throw/n.
* Perl can access and manipulate javascript's /this/.
* Full support for utf8 even when SpiderMonkey wasn't compiled with
support for it.
* A command line *jsp* javascript interpreter included for
standalone javascript execution.
* Big test battery. Almost 1000 tests.
* Extensive reference documentation.
Requirements:
Perl 5.8 or higher
SpiderMonkey 1.7 or higher
Get it from your nearest CPAN site at: http://search.cpan.org/dist/JSP/
or visit us at http://jsp.msg.mx
The JSP project is looking for both developers and users.
I'd appreciate your comments and feedback.
Thank you,
Salvador Ortiz
