Re: Questions about BSF in Server Side Scripting

[Rony G. Flatscher]

Charlie,

attempting a few answers (if you look at the sources, you probably can 
answer most of your answers yourself) ...

1)  Is BSFManager thread safe?  Are there any rules
the BSFEngines have to adhere to with regards to the
thread model?  Do seperate threads get seperate stack
frames or seperate global variable declarations?
A BSFManager allows the invocation of multiple engines, whereby it 
caches each engine.

You can create multiple BSFManagers which would have their own cached 
engine instances.

You can create BSFEngine-instances individually.

3)  What happens if two threads run the following code at the same time?

  String language = manager.getLangFromFilename(
scriptFile.getName() );
  manager.declareBean( "request", request,
request.getClass() );
  manager.declareBean( "response", response,
response.getClass() );
  manager.exec( language, scriptFile.getPath(), 0, 0,
script );
Will calling declareBean() result in two different
instance variables, or will they overwrite each other?
If working with the same instance of BSFManager they would overwrite 
each other.

4)  Calling exec() twice retains state from the
previous run.  

  BSFManager.exec( "jython", "", 0, 0, "i = 3" );
  BSFManager.exec( "jython", "", 0, 0, "print i" );
That will print out 3.  In a server application you
don't really want retention of state since it could
result in unpredictable behavior.  Are exec() and
eval() the same?  The exec() method I expect to simply
fire off a script and not retain state between calls
or threads, but eval() I expect should retain state. 
Sort of like interactive programs would use eval(),
but users who want to run a script and retain no state
could use exec().

Have you tried different instances of BSFManagers or BSFEngine for that matter?

Hope that helps a little,

---rony



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