[Fwd: Re: javax.script package for Apache Harmony]

["Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)" <ro...@apache.org>]

Hi there, FYI, regards, ---rony


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: javax.script package for Apache Harmony
Date: 	Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:13:58 +0600
From: 	Mikhail Loenko <ml...@gmail.com>
To: 	Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) <ro...@apache.org>
CC: 	Anthony Elder <an...@uk.ibm.com>, Sanka Samaranayake
<sa...@apache.org>
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Thanks, Rony!

I've found the binaries, Harmony build can grab them there

I've subscribed to the bsf dev list, so I'll post my questions there.
[feel free to forward this message to the dev list]

Thank you for your help!
Mikhail

2007/11/23, Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) <ro...@apache.org>:
> Hi Mikhail!
> we talked at ApacheCon about possibility of reuse of javax.script in
the
> Java6 branch of the Harmony project.

> Yes, was great!
>
> Could you please let me know what would be the easiest way to
> setup
build-time download of the binaries (the package plus all
> the
supporting classes if you have them)?

I tried bsf.jar
> from
http://apache.mirrors.tds.net/jakarta/bsf/binaries/bsf-bin-2.4.0.zip
but
> it has only org.apache.* classes, so are there javax.script
classes
> available?

> Sure! At the moment the downloading is messed up and it has been in
> "repair". Thanks to the help of  Stefan Bodewig on the bsf-dev list this may
> have been the case already, such that the next creation of the download
> scripts and serving the mirrors makes those archives available.
>
> You can get direct access to these packages on "people.apache.org" going
> into the directory "/www/www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/bsf".
> The packages are stored in the directories "binary/" and "source/".
>
> Ad different versions:
>
> BSF 2.4.0: got released in October 2006 and is *not* compatible with
> "javax.script"!
> BSF 3.0.0 beta2: got released a week before ACUS, but unfortunately we
> messed the downloading up. *This* is the version that implements the
> "javax.script" package.I copied this e-mail to ant elder who had the idea of
> using retroweaver and went under the efforts to create the BSF-3.0-beta
> packages! Also, I copy it to Sanka Samaranayake one of the two original
> implementors of BSF-3.0.
>
> If you have any questions to this please let us know!
>
> [We could also move any questions, discussions to
> <ma...@jakarta.apache.org>, such that all BSF
> developers could see what is going on, what problems may have to be tackled,
> etc.]
>
> Regards,
>
> ---rony
>
>
>