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On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:05 PM, janandith jayawardena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > >
