I guess the dependency on Rhino piqued my attention there, but I suppose
that's just a demo.

I thought I saw some Groovy support in the code base somewhere... was I
imagining that?

I might get round to do doing a Groovy scripting demo (if I can squeeze more
hours in the day).

Cheers,
Chris


2009/4/17 Greg Brown <[email protected]>

> With regards to this are you talking about Pivot apps interacting with
>> their
>> containing web-page, or actually providing scripting within Pivot?
>>
>
> The latter.
>
>  In the latter case I don't see the point in JavaScript support within
>> Pivot.  This is Java-land after all and while this is a RIA which can run
>> in
>> a browser, one of the appealing things to a lot of developers will be that
>> they can create a functional, server-backed RIA in Java end to end... so
>> why
>> not just use Groovy and dump JavaScript support within Pivot?
>>
>
> We're not doing anything to support JavaScript specifically. Pivot's
> scripting support simply sits on top of the JVM's scripting support, so any
> JVM-compatible scripting language will (should?) work.
>
> BTW, I actually like JavaScript as a scripting language and, as a
> developer, might use it in a Pivot application for simple use cases.
>
>

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