Re: possible new feature... scripting?

[Tony Christney <tchristney@xxxxxxxxx>]

I understand about the malicious use, but to be honest
I'm more worried about malicious bugs ;)

The reasons I would go with Rhino are:

1. It's free and ready to go
2. It supports the DOM used by the scenario files
3. Better chance that our scenario writers are
    familiar with JavaScript than <insert language here>
4. Rhino is Java native, so I don't have to port it.

Tony C.

On 20-Dec-07, at 3:07 AM, Roger Burton West wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 07:40:18PM -0800, Tony Christney wrote:
>
>> I've been doing some investigation into adding
>> scripting support to FTJava
>
> I like the idea, though I'm a little wary of adding a Turing-complete
> language because of the possibility for malicious use.
>
> Personally I'd be inclined to eschew Javascript and go for something
> designed as an embeddable language, such as Rexx (all right, nobody  
> else
> uses that any more) or LUA...
>
> Roger
>
>