[jdom-interest] ANNOUNCE: Test release of JDOM-JS Javascript binding

[Matthew MacKenzie]

Wesley,

Cool idea -- have you considered writing your code to BSF so that the 
bridge is available to other script languages?  I have been using JDOM 
from within an app using BSF for a while, but I am just using the 
regular JDOM api (which is awesome, don't get me wrong....if you are a 
programmer ;-)).

BSF == Bean Scripting Framework 
(http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/bsf)

Cheers,

Matt

Wesley Biggs wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've been working on a bridge piece that allows JDOM XML trees to be
> manipulated from JavaScript (the Rhino language, that is) in a manner in
> keeping with traditional javascript styling.
> 
> >From the README:  
> 
> What is it?
> 
>   - A lightweight bridge between the JDOM XML tree representation and
>     a convenient JavaScript API for accessing and manipulating XML documents
> 
>     that uses standard JavaScript design patterns.  XML documents are
> manipulated
>     just like the DOM in HTML.
> 
> Requirements
> 
>   - You need jdom.jar from the JDOM site, http://www.jdom.org/, and js.jar
> from 
>     the Rhino project, http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/.  Download these two
> JAR files
>     and place them in this directory.
> 
> Here's an example of some javascript code that accesses an XML tree:
> 
>  // Display info about the second employee
>  out.println(  roster.employee[1].firstName  )
>  out.println(  roster.employee[1].lastName  )
>  out.println(  roster.employee[1]['@department']  )
> 
>  // Display raw XML for the first employee (could leave off the [0] for the
> same result)
>  out.println(  roster.employee[0]()  )
> 
> There's quite a bit more functionality in there, but that gives you a
> general idea of the usage, built to match the way the HTML DOM is accessed
> from JavaScript.
> 
> This is a test release to solicit some feedback.  I have tentatively placed
> this code (what there is of it -- it's meant to be very lightweight) in the
> org.jdom.contrib.js package.
> 
> If you're interested in trying it out, check out the attached ZIP file.  All
> comments appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Wes
> 
> 
>  <<jdom-js.zip>> 
> jdom-js.zip
> 
> Content-Type:
> 
> application/octet-stream
> Content-Encoding:
> 
> base64
> 
>