BTW: it seems that https://scripting.dev.java.net/ does not support perl?
Thanks, Wei On 8/1/2010 6:28 PM, Mark Fortner wrote: > When I'd the switch to Java 6 planned? If it's going to be a while you > might try BSF as a stopgap measure. > > Mark > > On Aug 1, 2010, at 2:50 PM, "Donal K. > Fellows"<[email protected] > > wrote: > >> 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 no >> t-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. >> <donal_k_fellows.vcf> >> --- >> --- >> --- >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the >> Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share >> of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm >> _______________________________________________ >> taverna-hackers mailing list >> [email protected] >> Web site: http://www.taverna.org.uk >> Mailing lists: http://www.taverna.org.uk/about/contact-us/ >> Developers Guide: http://www.taverna.org.uk/developers/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the > Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share > of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm > _______________________________________________ > taverna-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > Web site: http://www.taverna.org.uk > Mailing lists: http://www.taverna.org.uk/about/contact-us/ > Developers Guide: http://www.taverna.org.uk/developers/ -- Wei Tan, Ph.D. Computation Institute the University of Chicago|Argonne National Laboratory http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~wtan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ taverna-hackers mailing list [email protected] Web site: http://www.taverna.org.uk Mailing lists: http://www.taverna.org.uk/about/contact-us/ Developers Guide: http://www.taverna.org.uk/developers/
