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	b-man	2009-06-08 , 22:01
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This is a raw port of the Ejscript javascript application framework. This is an effort to port a powerful yet resource friendly javascript API to both maemo and mer. Ejscript is designed to function from inside OR outside of the browser. (It can function as a fully capable system-wide language (like python, bash, and perl), as a web language, or both) Ejscript is an extended version of javascript that fully supports and complies with the standardized version of JavaScript known as ECMAScript Edition 3 (ECMA-262-3).

Features:

* An environment for high performance web applications
* Fully capable of being a stand-alone programing language like python.
* Integrated SQLite database
* Object Relational Mapper (ORM)
* Ajax view controls
* Full support for jQuery
* A direct-threaded Virtual Machine

Core Features:

* Web Framework - Provides a large amount of Ajax functions when working on browser based applications

* High Performance Virtual Machine - Provides a resource friendly direct-threaded Virtual Machine for running byte compiled javascript code

* Compact Byte Code - for fast execution

* Enhanced Core Language - Ejscript enhances the ECMAScript core with powerful a set of features including: classes and modules for scalable programming, conditional compilation and an enhanced-language mode to detect common JavaScript language issues.

* Extended Language - Provides classes for Events, Timers, Files, Paths, Streams, Sockets and HTTP. There are also significant upgrades for the core system classes: Array, Object and String.

* Useful tools - Includes a fast, optimizing compiler, symbolic assembler listing generator and documentation generation tool.

More documentation on usage can be found here:
http://b-man.psykosis.net/projects/e...documentation/

Source, development, and binary deb packages are available here.

NOTICE: if you are going to build this from source you must use this patch, this disables the '-mcpu' flag from getting used in make.gcc since gcc for armv6l doesn't support this option.

Examples:

Creating a program to use with the interpreter (ejs)

Code:

#!/usr/local/bin/ejs

/* Hello.es */
/* prints Hello World and displays the systems hostname */

testrun();
function testrun(){
	print("Hello, World!!\n");
	print("System Hostname:\n");
	System.run("/bin/hostname");
}
App.exit(0)

Creating and building a program to use with the Virtual Machine (ejsvm)

Code:

/* Hello.es */
module Hello {
	var x = "hello, world!!"
}
use module Test
print(x)

Code:

/* Hello.es */
module Hello {
	print("Hello, World!!");
	App.exit(0);
}

And then compile and run the program with the following:

Code:

ejsc Hello.es

ejsvm Hello.mod

Real-world example:

this program would take test.c and compile it using gcc, strip it, and then run the resulting program test:

Code:

/* Build.es */

module Build {
	compile();
	function compile() {
		sys_make();
	}
		function sys_make() {
			print("Compiling test.c...\n");
			var compile = System.run("/usr/bin/gcc test.c -o test");
			print("Done!\n\n");
			sys_strip();
		}
			function sys_strip(){
				print("striping file...\n\n")
				var strip_file = System.run("/usr/bin/strip test");
				sys_info();
			}
				function sys_info(){
					var info = System.run("/usr/bin/file test");
					print(info+"");
					sys_run();		
					function sys_run(){
					}
						print("\nTesting program...\n\n");
							var test = System.run("./test");
							print(test+"");
							print("\n");
						}
	App.exit(0);
}

Using Ejscript with a browser:

Assuming your app name is going to be web, run the following as root (i'm using my /root directory)

Code:

cd ~/

ejsweb -v generate app web

and to start the localised server run the following:

Code:

cd web

ejsweb run

and open Microb, or any other browser and go to http://localhost:4000/

You should see the following:

And you're done

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mob590	2009-06-10 , 06:45
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Great work, I'm the project lead for Ejscript and we'd gladly accept any patches so you can use the software unmodified.

Michael O'Brien
mob@embedthis.com

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Architengi	2009-06-10 , 09:19
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Originally Posted by b-man

This is a raw port of the Ejscript javascript application framework to both maemo and mer.

Features:

* An environment for high performance web applications
* Fully capable of being a stand-alone programing language like python.
* Integrated SQLite database
* Object Relational Mapper (ORM)
* Ajax view controls
* Full support for jQuery
* A direct-threaded Virtual Machine

* Extended Language - Provides classes for Events, Timers, Files, Paths, Streams, Sockets and HTTP. There are also significant upgrades for the core system classes: Array, Object and String.

More documentation on usage can be found here:
http://b-man.psykosis.net/projects/e...documentation/

Source, development, and binary deb packages are available here.

Super nice.

This looks like a powerful language with rapid development.

Does it support graphics (drawing, bitmap manipulation, video)?

For user interface stand alone, can you give an example of a window with a combo-box with 3 items and 2 buttons ok and cancel?

Does it have a debugger?

Thank you for your hard work !

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	b-man	2009-06-12 , 18:01
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Originally Posted by Architengi

Super nice.

This looks like a powerful language with rapid development.

Does it support graphics (drawing, bitmap manipulation, video)?

For user interface stand alone, can you give an example of a window with a combo-box with 3 items and 2 buttons ok and cancel?

Does it have a debugger?

Thank you for your hard work !

1) yes - it should, allthough i haven't confermed this yet

2) untill i can find a way to make or port an html rendering canvas (like luna-webkit - what the Palm Pre's WebOS uses to display it's user interface) that can run in hildon, you won't be able to create a user interface outside of the browser directly from the javascript itself

allthough you can run it from within your system to use d-bus, zenity, or gtkwindow to create an interface:

Code:

module Test {
             test_window();
             function test_window();
                            var testwin = System.run("/usr/bin/dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.freedesktop.Notifications /org/freedesktop/Notifications org.freedesktop.Notifications.SystemNoteInfoprint string:"Opening Window..."");
                            print(testwin+"");
                            sleep(100);             /* sleep 100 miliseconds */
                            System.run("gxmessage -center -alignbuttons center -buttons "close window":1 -geometry 300x50 -title "question" -wrap "this window was launched using Ejscript"");
                            App.exit(0);
             }
}

3) yes, i believe that it's built into the interpreter and compiler.

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