Subj : Re: Using reflection with Rhino "beans"
To   : Ugo Cei
From : Igor Bukanov
Date : Fri Oct 01 2004 06:40 pm

Ugo Cei wrote:
> Great! Now, if you'd like to know why I want to do this in Java, it is
> because I want to be able to define "JavascriptBeans" that can be
> managed by an IoC container like Spring just as well as ordinary
> JavaBeans are. It's the container that creates new bean instances, so
> I cannot do that in the JS code. I want the adaptation to be
> transparent.
> 
> With the Adapter trick, I am almost there. The only problem left is
> that setters take an Object as an argument instead of the real class,
> which probably means that I need to define a Java interface to
> implement.

You may also consider ClassCompiler, 
http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/apidocs/org/mozilla/javascript/optimizer/ClassCompiler.html 
which allows to compile JS sources into JVM class files that can be 
packaged as jar etc.

See also documentation to JavaScript compiler,
http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/jsc.html
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/js/rhino/toolsrc/org/mozilla/javascript/tools/jsc/Main.java

which is a command line tools that wraps the interface and

examples/NervousText.js
examples/NervousText.html

in Rhino distribution or CVS that show how to write Applet in JavaScript.

Regards, Igor

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