I know you said not to mention groovy but you could always just write your 
service in groovy using standard java and then drop it into a java file when 
you're done.

Regards
Scott

HotWax Media
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On 29/06/2010, at 1:46 PM, Muhammad Aamir wrote:

> Actually I am aware of minilang and have used it earlier. The reason I want
> to minimize the use of it (in addition to its limitation) is that I don't
> want to release the source code of my application.
> 
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:47 PM, James McGill <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Muhammad Aamir <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Is minilang a complete replacement of Java language?
>>> 
>> 
>> This is not the intention of Minilang.  It's a matter of opinion as to
>> whether Minilang is easier to maintain than the eqivalent Java.
>> Minilang is excellent for much of the work that is commonly done in the
>> service layer, especially simple create and update operations, getting
>> lists
>> using variables that are automatically bound from the context, checking
>> permissions, etc.  This kind of thing is very common in OFBiz, so there are
>> numerous examples.
>> 
>> Since you have <call-bsh> in minilang, you also have the option of using
>> java grammar inline.   There are plenty of things that are simple to do in
>> Java that might be very difficult or impossible to do in Minilang, and in
>> my
>> opinion there are Minilang routines in the OFBiz distribution that appear
>> to
>> have gone through enough evolution, that they would be better, in the long
>> run, ported to Java.
>> 
>> --
>> James McGill
>> Phoenix AZ
>> 

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