On 6/23/05, Antonio Gallardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ok, so this is really turning out to be a pain. > >> > >> For Jason, do you still have the nozilla built rhino jars? If not, > >> where did you get the rhino source from that works with cocoon 2.1.7. > >> It didn't jump out at us as to which version exactly was done with > >> 2.1.7. > > Dunno if this was already answered. Anyway, ... > > The rhino inside cocoon is a temporaly fork. It was forked to support > continuations. Initially, it was done as a proof of concept and later > adopted in cocoon trunk. The sources are in cocoondev.org: > > http://cocoondev.org/main/117/31.html > > This temporaly fork was one long time ago sometime between 2002 and 2003. > Sorry, I don't remember exactly the date nor month. :-( > > In 2004, thanks to the talks between both communities (Cocoon and Rhino), > the Mozilla Rhino project added continuations functionality to the Rhino > trunk. The continuations support in Mozilla Rhino was officially released > in version 1.6R1 (Nov, 29th 2004). At that time, the cocoon community had > some 2.1 versions on the street using the temporaly forked version. > > The Mozilla continuation implementation was mainly based on the code of > the temporaly fork, but not exactly with the same behavior. There are > small differences. Note that, it is almost the same with just some > features are differents. Some tests, showed that most Flowscript code can > run without modifications any of the jars.... I think Reinhard can explain > a lot better this. Note, this another long history. You can search the > devel maillist archives for more info. Sorry, I have no time now to search > for it right now. ;-) > > Well, given the small diferences in continuations implementation between > the temporaly forked and the main rhino jar, we (cocoon developers) > decided to stick with the temporaly forked Rhino version in cocoon 2.1.x > branch. We also decided to start using the Mozilla Rhino jar with > continuations support in the main trunk (where we develop cocooon 2.2). > > Also, is important to know, that is posible to use Mozilla Rhino 1.6R1 in > cocoon 2.1.x. AFAIK, it is only a configuration matter. > > I hope this explain some of the "why and where" related to the temporaly > forked rhino. ;-) > > Best Regards, > > Antonio Gallardo. >
Thank you. That is very helpful. This will at least get us started. Irv
