On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:45 PM, sam ” <skyn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, > > Is there a scripting support with proper module system (import modules from > repository somewhere)? > > I know JSP can <%@page import="some.java.package"%> . > > But, the "module" for JSP should be written in Java.. and deployed to felix > as an OSGi bundle (or the jar could be added to CLASSPATH somewhere).
This is not true. It's certainly possible to write OSGi bundles which contain non-Java code. Not sure about Clojure or Jython, but you can definitely do this with Scala, Groovy, and JRuby without much drama. > > What I want is to develop entire application NOT using Java, in the > repository. > For example, in Python, I want to: > import some.module.foo > > and it'll import /var/pymodules/some/module/foo/__init__.py or > something.. I don't follow Jython, so I can't say how feasible it is to get the runtime to load files from the repository rather than the file system. I tried to get the JRuby team to add better support for loading RubyGems from other bundles, but they weren't interested. > > Looking at: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sling/trunk/contrib/scripting/ > none of scripting support seems to have that capability. > > Has anyone used/developed proper scripting support sling (for any > language.. groovy, python, clojure.. etc), where you entirely ditched Java > development? > If so, what is your experience? What is your development envirionment > like? (step debugging, IDE..etc). Is your scripting support open sourced? > > Or, if I want to develop web application using scripting languages > (non-Java), should I just use some other framework than Sling, and talk to > JCR through HTTP or something? >
