Re: ideas...

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Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.spamfilter@virtualinfinity.net>

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Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:55:35 -0800

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Apologies to Bogus, I've had to sanitize the encoding of your name.
Bogus Exception wrote:

Roedy,

Thanks for writing. See below inline...

On Nov 30, 2:28 am, Roedy Green <see_webs...@mindprod.com.invalid>
wrote:
[...]

Obviously SOMETHING has to parse the source and convert it into
something executable. The usual thing to do that is javac or the
on-the-fly equivalents.

Exactly. And this is why I have posted the inquiry. There seem to be 2
choices, and I can't determine the differences between them. I see the
choices as:

1. An actual compile into a class, and create/copy that class into a
jar, then copying that jar file into the ./deploy dir (my prototype is
JBoss 4).
2. Have the user fill in BeanShell, and run that.

I am very concerned about the speed of BeanShell in comparison to
compiled classes. Unfortunately, I need performance centered around
creating objects based on the user code at a very high rate. If I need
to parse BeanShell every time an object is instantiated, then it will
probably be exponentially slower than a compiled class, no?

Perhaps what you mean is you don't want the user to be involved in any
way with the compilation process. It should happen transparently.

Exactly. I just want them to configure any business logic, save their
session/work, and it just works.

I just don't know anything about the performance risks associated with
BeanShell, or whether there is another, oblique option I am not even
aware of.

Thanks again for writing!

Or you could have them submit a Java source file and compile on the
remote end, and automatically handle the deployments there.

You might even make it into a HTML form where they can type the Java
source text in there. Although in reality, if the client needs this
kind of customizable software, then they probably should be savvy enough
to use a full fledged compiler/ide/etc...

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