> I know in the Scala community, a number of people launch the > REPL/interpreter with rlwrap > (http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/rlwrap/man.html) which provides > history, editing, etc.
Yes, rlwrap is nice. But I think it doesn't exist on windows (disregarding cygwin here), and I generally it would be nicer to have this in as much Java as possible. > I'd been thinking for awhile this would be a good community project > for the JVM Languages community--having a shared console > (command-line, Swing) infrastructure as well as standardizing on > something like the Nailgun background service daemon. Yes, that sounds like a good project. I'm not sure if having only one nailgun daemon would work - I have the impression that the JVM isolation guarantees here are a bit too weak. In particular terminating apps is problematic, as far as I know (no Thread.kill()). > There are some projects around consoles that could be a starting point > http://code.google.com/p/scriptconsole4j/, > http://scriptlandia.blogspot.com/, as well as the many console-type > apps that different language implementors have built. I think these are Swing based consoles (am I wrong?). Which is fine, except I'm looking for a command line console. This is a lot more difficult, due to the fact that Java/the JVM doesn't support anything Terminal oriented, only reading passwords is possible in Java 6. JLine supports this by having some dll for Windows, and calling some stty commands for Unixes, which is really great. Martin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
