tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454984819999158682011-11-24T03:44:45.589+01:00putting rhino to worka log of my experiments with the rhino javascript engine, maybe even including getting some actual work donedr.bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14253748183912851117noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-545498481999915868.post-73853535878377197512007-10-15T12:59:00.000+02:002007-10-15T13:45:52.913+02:00readDirOnce you got rhino up and running, one of the first things you'd want to be able to do is read and write files. Out of the box, rhino doesn't offer too much in this department. To load javascript code from files, you got:load(["foo.js", ...]) Load JavaScript source files named by string arguments.Good enough for a start - you can write some library functions/objects/whatever dr.bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14253748183912851117noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-545498481999915868.post-51036066372427873432007-10-05T13:31:00.001+02:002007-10-05T15:48:03.040+02:00getting startedRhino is an open-source implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java. It is typically embedded into Java applications to provide scripting to end users.But, you can also make it work the other way around: write javascript, either in script files or interactively in the rhino shell, with the option of calling into java classes from javascript code. That way, all the goodies available in dr.bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14253748183912851117noreply@blogger.com2