how to interact with JavaScript?

[C. Abney]

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On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Bobby Kleemann wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, C. Abney wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, John R. Comeau wrote:

> > > I am asking about the 2nd item.  I want to write a Perl program to
> > > interact with someone else's JavaScript.
> > 
> > That's a pretty neat question, one I'd never considered... I don't know
> > what's happening in the Perl/Un*x/OSS world, but Microsoft reportedly
> > has a Javascript interpreter that you can use... if your code is
> > running on a windows box you might be able to glue something together.
> > 
> > Is there anything like this for us Un*x ppl???
> 
> I believe the Mozilla project has one written in C/C++ and another written
> in Java that you can use, but I don't know the requirements.

Oh, that's nice.  Information (on the C implementation) is here:

	http://www.mozilla.org/js/spidermonkey/

The java-based version is called 'rhino'.

Some examples of the use of the interpreter (presumably as a standalone
executable, it can be compiled as such) is here:

	http://www.mozilla.org/js/projects.html

CA
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