dissecting the original appjet engine

[ben kuin]

hi
Etherpad is an impressing product - thanks for sharing it with the rest of us.

However I really enjoyed the service provided by  the original appjet engine where you could write little apps in a one-page script. From what I know Etherpad is built on a new appjet engine, so that brings a few questions I'd like to ask here:

- Is the new appjet engine (from this repository) still able to run small apps in the typical appjet style?
- would it be a good idea to create a separate "appjet-2.0" repository, for this purpose (or a branch, or clone, or ...)
- could someone help me with a minimal example to show how to use appjet-2.0? Etherpad is just too big rightnow.

thanks
ben

[Pita Poison]

Hi Ben,

That sounds interesting. What kind of Apps are you talking about? Like
a plugin for Etherpad?

Sorry 4 my english

[otacon]

On Dec 28, 4:18 pm, Pita Poison <petermartisc...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
> That sounds interesting. What kind of Apps are you talking about? Like
> a plugin for Etherpad?

I guess the OP refers to the first services that AppJet sold.
You can find traces of that in the archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080212210510rn_1/appjet.com/docs/intro
and a couple of open sourced applications for that platform:
http://code.google.com/p/ellab-appjet/source/browse
by this guy:
http://angusdev.blogspot.com/search/label/appjet

Anyway, I agree that it would be great to have a minimal "hello world"
app that runs on AppJet.

Silvio

[J.D. Zamfirescu]

In case anyone is still curious about this, here's instructions for a
"Hello, World!" app using the appjet engine:

$ cd infrastructure/
$ SCALA_HOME=... MYSQL_CONNECTOR_JAR=... bin/makejar.sh
$ echo 'serverhandlers.requestHandler = function() {
response.write("Hello, World!"); }' >> main.js
$ java -jar build/appjet.jar main.js

J.D.

[jgate]

Thanks J.D. This is great.

BTW are there plans to open source the fancy pants branch from AppJet
1? My dream is to combine it with the etherpad parts to get a general
OSS application platform for server-side JavaScript, similar to the
original AppJet and what I am trying to do with jgate.de.

[wewe.tom]

I cant get etherpad sourcecode.why?
just because I am in China?

2010/1/13 jgate <dvbp...@gmail.com>

[J.D. Zamfirescu]

There are no such plans, sadly. :(

[jgate]

Thanks anyway. With Etherpad you have released a great piece of work
to the community. I wish you and your team the best at Google's.

[itsnotvalid]

May be just me, I am not a fan of server-side javascript. For example
there are different varients of javascript implementations for
different brand and different versions of browsers, which is hardly
maintainable most of the time. Also the language is like a mixture of
language styles. If you are only looking for server-side javascript
there is another product called Jaxer (http://www.jaxer.org/) which I
personally haven't used, however is actively maintained and GPL'ed.