Bean Scripting Framework available with full src and royalty-free license

["Sanjiva Weerawarana" <sanjiva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI, Bean Scripting Framework (BSF) has just been released with complete
src and a royalty-free commercial license at
    http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/tech/bsf

LotusXSL uses BSF to implement its extension architecture. Using BSF 
allows LotusXSL to support extensions in any of the BSF supported
languages - the current list is JavaScript, NetRexx, Jacl, JPython,
and BML (see the BSF site for refs). Java extensions in LotusXSL are
also done sorta thru BSF, but that's with a custom engine (see src for
LotusXSL for details: com.lotus.xpath.XSLTJavaClassEngine.java).

More languages are currently being integrated to BSF: Perl as well as
VBScript and JScript (and every other active scripting language) while
on Win32 are due in fairly short order.

Clearly using BSF to implement the extension architecture of any XSLT 
engine implemented in Java makes sense (IMO). That's exactly the point
of BSF - to be a single scripting architecture for the Java platform.
BSF will soon be submitted as a JSR to Sun as well to use it as the 
basis of a platform standard for scripting and script integration.

Bye,

Sanjiva.



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