On Monday, Nov 3, 2003, at 01:00 Europe/Rome, Ugo Cei wrote:
[I'm crossposting to dev, since this might stimulate some comments from the Flowscript gurus over there.]
Oleg Dulin wrote:Dear Fellow Cocoon Users:
I just read the forwarded message on xml-dev mailing list and realized that Groovy makes a perfect language for business logic intermixed with XML, such as XSP pages.
This may also be a simpler approach to FlowScript.
Groovy looks very interesting indeed. What it currently lacks WRT Rhino-based Javascript is continuations. The really important part of Cocoon's Flowscript is continuations, not the Javascript syntax. If it had continuations I might consider switching from JS to Groovy very seriously.
I see there has been some discussion about continuations on their ML:
http://lists.codehaus.org/pipermail/groovy-dev/2003q3/000158.html
but it doesn't seem very probable that Groovy will support continuations any time soon, which is a pity.
Pretty cool stuff. If they add continuations, I'm all for throwin rhino down the drain.
[at least, from a community perspective, we wouldn't be basing our entire architecture on branched code of a almost-dead community hosted in a location that doesn't care about java]
I'll ping James about this.
-- Stefano.
