Hi,
This is the mail I've sent to Martin Odersky in seek of a solution to our
problems. I don't know whether this is good enough but I didn't find a
better way.
janandith
From: janandith jayawardena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 2:34 AM
Subject: Requesting your support to complete Google Summer of Code project
related to scala.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Sir,
I'm so grateful you considered reading this mail spending a moment of your
valuable time. Please accept my humble gratitude .
I'm an Undergraduate of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering ,
University of Moratuwa , Sri Lanka [1] .
I watched your Google Tech Talk on Scala[2]. It's really interesting . I'm
currently working on a Google Summer of Code project related to Scala[3].
The project is to make Scala available in Apache Sling [4]. The
intention is to call scala compiler in a JavaScriptEngine eval method
(JSR223).
The source code is in Java and I use the Scala library to access scala
classes.
I thought of approaching you because I didn't find any answer either
from the scala mailing list or the internet.
I have three questions,
1. I need a mechanism to read a Scala file and run it in the eval method.
Currently I'm using the scala.tools.nsc.Interpreter for this. Is there a
better mechanism.
2. There is a need to specify the path to "scala-library-2.7.1.jar" using
scala.tools.nsc.Settings to run the Interpreter . How can I avoid this
and load the path at runtime without the user having to specify path. Is
there an alternative method.
3. How can I use Interpreter.bind method and use the variable pointing to
the bound object to invoke the Object functions in Scala.
I was so glad I could make scala popular using Summer of Code as a stage but
now I'm unable to progress without solutions to above questions,
The mid evaluation is closing so I need to answer these questions to show
some progress.
Thank you for your time. Hope to get a reply soon.
Yours Faithfully,
Janandith Uditha Jayawardena.
references:
[1] http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/
[2] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=553859542692229789
[3] http://code.google.com/soc/2008/asf/appinfo.html?csaid=D8773619086359A6
[4] http://incubator.apache.org/sling/site/index.html
