Bean Scripting Framework (BSF)

Date:     Mon, 25 Oct 1999 23:20:31 -0400
From:     Sanjiva Weerawarana <sanjiva@watson.ibm.com>
To:       xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
Subject:  Bean Scripting Framework available with full src and royalty-free license

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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