Announcements
- Introducing RhinoLoader
- A byproduct of Helma that extends Java applications with Rhino/JS. It is basically a Java classloader that creates classes from JavaScript files.
Discussions
- Deleting Objects in SpiderMonkey
- A user asks if there's a method of manually deleting an object in SpiderMonkey before garbage collector deletes it.
- Peter Wilson's reply was to add a method that does the deleting with a native implementation that releases the resources held by the object as seen in this database interface:
var myDbase = new PgsqlConnection;
myDbase.connect("database");
myDbase.exec("SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE ...");
// Use the result data - (native implementation function)
myDbase.close()
- SpiderMonkey for Server side
- Inquiry about why JavaScript hasn't caught on for general server-side scripting.
- Peter Wilson lists some important comparisons between SpiderMonkey and PHP. He states that JavaScript is powerful server-side scripting but it lacks in popularity since its only supported by Netscape, lacks a wide range of libraries, minimal marketing support.
- http://www.whitebeam.org is an example of open source Server Side JavaScript.
