On 01/08/2010 18:38, Mark Fortner wrote:
Not that I know of. But it would be nice if there was a more generalized form of the current beanshell processor. Java has built in support for scripting languages, and most people are familiar with python or perl (not beanshell). There are a wide variety of supported scripting languages that make use of the Java VM including (Groovy, JavaScript, Sleep (a perl-like language) and Jython). Here's a brief listing: https://scripting.dev.java.net/
We've known about this (and wanted to fix it!) for quite a while, but it's been blocked for a while by Taverna being dependent on supporting Java 5; the scripting support framework requires Java 6.
The good news is that we will be removing this blocker in future releases. The Server is already transitioned (a benefit of it being a de novo software artefact), the core execution Platform is being ported, and I'm not quite sure what's involved in moving the Workbench; GUI development in Java isn't my particular forté. The not-quite-so-good news is that I'm not sure what the timeline for the transition is.
Perhaps we can raise an issue about this if there's enough interest from the user-community.
Once the blocker problem (Java versioning) is sorted, I'd hope that the community could provide plugins for the languages they want to see.
Donal.
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