You rock Werner! If I have the time, I'm gonna give it a try this week! /JK
2009/12/9 Gerhard Petracek <gerhard.petra...@gmail.com>: > +1 > regards, > gerhard > > http://www.irian.at > > Your JSF powerhouse - > JSF Consulting, Development and > Courses in English and German > > Professional Support for Apache MyFaces > > > 2009/12/9 Werner Punz <werner.p...@gmail.com> >> >> Hello everyone I just wanted to give a small report regarding >> ext-scripting. >> >> The status looks very good, I am getting very close to a possible alpha >> release, I have two big open things (and a handful of minor ones, like >> dropping qdox and and class rewriting, and finally fixing the dreaded >> windows issues) >> >> The one I am working now on is concurrency/aka multiuser handling, that is >> being worked on currently, the other is JSF2 Groovy annotation support, that >> will be the next task. >> >> After that bugfixing and then I will make a vote for an alpha release. >> I will start to work on the documentation post alpha! >> >> So I am right in time to get it at least up to beta status for the JSF >> days. >> >> Anyway here is what you will get for 1.0 >> >> Groovy Support: >> JSF Artefacts, Bean reloading (also session and application beans), >> JSF2 dynamic annotation support >> >> Java Support: >> >> JSP like dynamic recompilation and reloading für all JSF artefacts, >> dynamic Bean reloading, also for session and application scoped beans. >> >> JSP like dynamic recompilation also for annotated JSF2 artefacts! >> (most of you probably have seen my youtube video) >> >> >> Currently all this works as a simple plugin to myfaces with a few >> parameters in the web.xml and for now I could avoid any javaagents to be >> set! >> >> I guess with all this we will be way ahead of what Mojarra currently can >> deliver. >> >> Post 1.0: My plan is once the core is stable enough to integrate >> as many scripting languages as possible. Currently we can support >> pretty much every scripting language which can compile against the VM. >> So possible candidates are Scala, JRuby and Jython. >> >> Also Kito asked me for portlet support, currently not supported, but this >> one is also an important post 1.0 target to aim for. >> >> Theoretically it would be possible also to support the Java scripting API >> but from what I have seen the API is very limiting. >> >> I dont think I will ever try to integrate it at least I dont have any >> plans to do it for now, I also dont think it will be needed in the >> forseeable future since more and more scripting languages seem to >> target the VM directly with their compilers. >> >> >> Werner >> > >
