[ jEdit-users ] scripting

[<ar...@co...>]

I know there is BeanShell, but I have been playing with Rhino, 
Mozilla.org's Java implementation of JavaScript and I have to say I am 
/very/ impressed.  Not only can you selectively expose fields and objects 
to JavaScript, JavaScript can "natively" use real Java objects by 
importing classes - you can make a normal, full application in JavaScript 
alone.  Effectively you get a true parsed Java.  Also Rhino does dynamic 
compilation of JavaScript to Java bytecode which is very slick.  If there 
are ever plans to extend jEdit to make it entirely scriptable (with a 
full fledged OO scripting language) I think JavaScript and Rhino are it.

Aaron