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I have been searching for ways to get Beanshelll and BSF into Eclipse to expore the Java+BuildSystem+scripting idea of Bruce Eckel's, yes he still moves his blog to some place new every freaking year. I foud a new piece of information on how to integrate beanshell with Eclipse.
Thanks to Ed Burnette of EclipseZone.com you can modify the manifext file of beanshell distributions and just pop it into the plugins folder of Eclispe and Eclispe will load it just like a regular pluigin according to Ed's note on the Benashell mailing list. The current release of Beanshell may already have the required manifest file changes.
What could Beanshell be used for in the Eclipse environment? As you know I have been pursuing a reasearch project in bringing Test driven Development to J2ME development. In MIDP side of J2ME we do not have access to reflection features of the Java langauge which of cousre limtis what you can do with J2MEUnit testing.
On the IDE side could we get access to reflection features to run complex J2MEUnit tests using Beanshell features? Might be anice avenue to expore.
Of course on the BSF side we have the sunshade set of Eclipse plugins that implements a way for BSF to be integrated into Eclipse. Than we have ANT tasks for the major BSF scripting engines such as Groovy. Wchic measn that I can explore bruce Eckel's idea of combining ANT with scripting to build a more complex build system that maintains its extendability without added complexitiy.
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