[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jakarta BSF 3.1 released

[sebb AT ASF]

The Apache Jakarta BSF team is pleased to announce the release of BSF 3.1.

 Apache Jakarta BSF 3.1 is an open-source implementation of JSR-223
(javax.script),
"Scripting for the Java Platform".

 [BSF3 was developed according to the JSR-223 specs, but has not yet
 been tested using the JSR-223 TCK.]

 See http://jakarta.apache.org/bsf/

The 3.1 release is a maintenance release update to fix a few bugs.

Compared with the previous release of 3.0 (beta3), the 3.1 release
fixes the following:
* BSF-30 ScriptEngineManager no longer catches ThreadDeath
* BSF-29 ScriptException constructed via chained constructor
  ScriptException(Exception) always returns String "null" for getMessage()

IMPORTANT
=
Note that BSF 3.1 no longer contains bsf-engines.jar, which was a repackaging
of the JSR-223 factories from https://scripting.dev.java.net/.

This is because:
- the jar contained all the engine factories as a single bundle. It was not
  possible to select individual factories, and this could lead to clashes with
  other factories on the classpath.
- the jar did not contain any implementations, so it was still
necessary to download
  the engine.

Many engines contain their own factories now; for those that don't the
factory can
still be downloaded from https://scripting.dev.java.net/.

This version of BSF requires Java 1.4 or later.

The release can be downloaded from:

 http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_bsf.cgi

 When downloading, please verify signatures using the KEYS file.

 All users running earlier versions of 3.x are recommended to upgrade.

The release is also available from your local Maven repository:

org.apache.bsf
bsf-api 
3.1

org.apache.bsf
bsf-utils 
3.1

 Note that BSF 3.x is not compatible with BSF 2.4, which uses a different API.

 Enjoy!
 The BSF team

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Apache Jakarta BSF

[dion]

I believe BSF has been approved for inclusion as part of the Jakarta 
Project.

Is there anything I can do to help this happen? February is a long time in 
the past, and as a past user of BSF, and a Jakarta committer I'd be happy 
to help where I can.

Also, have mailing lists etc been setup? I haven't seen them anywhere...?
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- Forwarded by dIon Gillard/Multitask Consulting/AU on 30/10/2002 
07:16 PM -

"Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/10/2002 06:52:44 PM:

> Dion,
> 
> For BSF?  IBM originally raised the subject on the BSF mailing list in 
June
> of 2001, and it was officially approved by the ASF during the Feb 27, 
2002
> Board Meeting.
> 
> ref: 
http://www-124.ibm.com/pipermail/bsf-discussion/2001-June/000271.html
> 
> 
http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2002/board_minutes_2002_02_
> 27.txt
> 
> I been talking with Chuck Murcko, who is doing the repository setup.  He
> told me today that he expects to be good to go within the next couple of
> days.
> 
>--- Noel
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:dion@;multitask.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 2:35
> 
> Noel,
> 
> do you know when/where the Jakarta nominations have taken place?
> 
> I'm fairly involved there and haven't seen it..
> 
> "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/10/2002 08:41:09 AM:
> 
> > Robert,
> >
> > Tomcat is the primary hosting engine (behind apache), although we 
still
> > have sites that need to migrate from GNUJSP.  I haven't tried putting 
up
> any
> > EJB (e.g., EJBoss) support.  On the other hand, we'll be running 
Tomcat 5
> as
> > soon as it looks stable.  I want JSP v2 support.
> >
> > Python is installed (not mod_python, yet) but no one is using it, 
unlike
> > perl.
> >
> > FWIW, I also came across something called Spyce, which is essentially 
an
> > attempt to clone JSP using Python as the language.  Reading his 
project
> > rationale, it occured to me what a widespread myth it is that Java is
> > THE programming language for JSP pages.  More engines really ought to
> pickup
> > BSF and deploy multiple scripting languages.  Hopefully that will 
happen
> > after BSF appears as a Jakarta project.  It is supposed to happen by 
Nov
> 1. Of
> > course, they first talked about moving it in Jun 2001 ... Meanwhile
> > incredible hours are wasted on deadend projects that could be invested
> > in integrating a new language into JSP.
> >
> >--- Noel
> 
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