Re: [ANN] JSKit - JavaScript Embedding Framework

[Nicolas Roard]

javascriptcore should be pretty easy to port on gnustep.
Webkit is a lot more work (although it might be easier now than in the past).

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf
<lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de> wrote:
>
>  Am 16.04.2008 um 00:35 schrieb Helge Hess:
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > is JavaScriptCore OpenSource / available for GNUstep?
> >
>
>  Looks like this: http://webkit.org/projects/javascript/index.html
>
>  but then again nobody will be willing or able to port it to GNUstep like
> WebKit itself (that porting is above my skills but if meanwhile ports for
> Qt, GTK+, Windows, Android are available that porting can't be that hard)
>
>  regards,
>
>         Lars
>
>
>
> >
> > I also wrote a Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript/ObjC bridge a few years
> ago, its still in the SOPE recycler:
> >
> >  http://svn.opengroupware.org/SOPE/trunk/Recycler/NGJavaScript/
> >  http://svn.opengroupware.org/SOPE/trunk/Recycler/NGScripting/
> >
> > Not sure whether it still works with a current SpiderMonkey, but it was
> reasonably nice.
> >
> > Greets,
> >  Helge
> >
> > On 15.04.2008, at 22:52, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
> >
> > > this could be interesting to some of you:
> > >
> > > Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:
> > >
> > > > Von: glenn andreas <gandreas@mac.com>
> > > > Datum: 15. April 2008 22:07:03 MESZ
> > > > An: Cocoa Dev <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com>
> > > > Betreff: [ANN] JSKit - JavaScript Embedding Framework
> > > >
> > > > The first beta version of JSKit, an open sourced (MIT license)
> framework for embedding JavaScript inside Cocoa applications is now
> available at <http://projects.gandreas.com/jskit/index.html>.
> > > >
> > > > JSKit provides Objective-C wrappers around the lower level
> JavaScriptCore (available on 10.5 and 10.4 with Safari 3.0) and provides
> transparent two way bridging technologies, allowing you to call JavaScript
> objects from Objective-C and to write Objective-C that can be called from
> JavaScript (including both simple functions as well as full
> type-constructors).  JSKit is designed as a layered system with "opt-in"
> capabilities, making it well suited to using it as a
> macro/embedding/scripting solution for a Cocoa app, with explicit "exposing"
> of your Cocoa code code to JavaScript world (preventing malicious JavaScript
> from subverting your app).  Additional layers can be added to expose generic
> NSObject classes, and later versions will include the ability to write
> entire Cocoa apps in JavaScript.
> > > >
> > > > JSKit also includes a simple command line interactive interpreter (for
> making JavaScript shell scripts), as well as utility classes for simple
> JavaScript savvy editors, and a fun little "turtle graphics" sample app
> (demonstrates how to use JavaScript as a scripting extension language in
> your app).
> > > >
> > > > JSKit can be built and used by XCode 2.4 running on Tiger (with Safari
> 3.0 installed), as well as 2.5 and 3.0 running on Leopard.
> > > >
> > > > Glenn Andreas                      gandreas@gandreas.com
> > > > <http://www.gandreas.com/> wicked fun!
> > > > quadrium | flame : flame fractals & strange attractors : build,
> mutate, evolve, animate
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Helge Hess
> > http://www.helgehess.eu/
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Nicolas Roard
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