There is however a perl-like scripting language called Sleep. Mark
On Aug 1, 2010, at 9:05 PM, Wei Tan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. Th >>> e 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
