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• other uses for JavaScript (Score:2)

  by lachoy (1663)

  Using JavaScript as an embedded interpreter for Java is pretty useful as well, and you don't have any pesky browser issues to deal with. I use Rhino [mozilla.org] from the Mozilla project in a testing framework and it's quite easy to use Java objects in your JavaScript code -- I posted about it [perl.org] recently with code examples.

  Also interesting (if weird) is the E4X [ecma-international.org] (ECMAScript for XML) specification -- Jon Udell wrote about it [infoworld.com] a few months ago. I haven't had a chance to use it yet -- apparently it's been implemented in both
  • Re:other uses for JavaScript (Score:1)

    by rjbs (4671) on 2005.01.06 9:49 (#37285) Homepage Journal

    That looks like another reason to like JavaScript -- and dislike Java. I can write code to easily use in Java, in JavaScript? Great! I can't benefit from JavaScript's dynamism by replacing methods? Ergh.
    
    I should "finish" learning Java (as much as I've learned Ruby or Python) so I can complain with more authority. Maybe now that I have a Mac, on which the Java system is less annoying. I hope.
    
    Anyway, in the end, I mostly write JS for work, where it has to run on MSIE. I said to my boss, wistfully, today, "I wish we could just use Firefox internally."
    
    I was just spewing, but he said, "I'm not sold on it. It locks up on me more than IE. And I don't like tabs."

    --
    rjbs

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    • Re:other uses for JavaScript (Score:1)

      by mary.poppins (3530)

      Learning Java is just a waste of time. There are more interesting things to learn out there, such as SML (mlton), ocaml, and haskell. :)
      
      Unless you want resume fodder, I suppose.
      
      I learned Java once, but have thankfully forgotten most of it.