On Sep 26, 9:37 am, "g...@nsbasic.com" <g...@nsbasic.comwrote:
Is anyone doing server side JavaScript on Mac OS X?
What tools work well for this?
I'm doing server-side JavaScript on OS X right now :-)
Here is a list of some alive and dead projects:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-side_JavaScript
I've investigated the options related to the Mozilla JavaScript
implementations. There are also Microsoft .NET things you can do, I
believe.
Spidermonkey is Mozilla JavaScript implementation in C. There are
projects like Whitebeam, wxJavaScript, jsext, and several mod_js
projects.
Rhino is the Mozilla JavaScript implementation in Java. Helma is the
leading JavaScript web framework based on Rhino. There is now also
Phobos to consider.
I've decided to mess around with Rhino and Jetty which are the basis
for Helma. Using Rhino and all of Java seems like a huge jumpstart
compared to "loosing" time messing with C libraries. I'd rather use a
C implementation but that is a huge uphill battle to get to a really
complete dev environment comparable to Perl/Python/Ruby.
There is no doubt that JavaScript on the server-side is gaining some
momentum since it allows code sharing with the client. This is more
beneficial as client programs become heavier.
The opposite approach is like GWT and haXe which compile source code
down to JavaScript to send to the client.
Peter