Comments on: mod_v8

By: myers

myers — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:27:44 +0000

http://code.google.com/p/v8cgi/ seems to do the same thing as this, but a little more fleshed out.

By: myers

myers — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:42:05 +0000

Hey, your svn host has been down the last two days.

By: Andrew Gilmartin

Andrew Gilmartin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:24:17 +0000

Javascript on the back-end is good. I have it integrated into a wiki (jspwiki.org) for several years. Having this integration allows for easy inclusion of data from RESTful and SOAP api. The true advantage of Java is that it is simple to use any of the rich set of class libraries just by dropping the jar archive into the class path.

I like the lightness of using Apache. I don’t know how v8 enables dynamic linking of external libraries. Something to explore.

By: leeight

leeight — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:31:36 +0000

how to build it?
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets …
g++ -o libmod_v8.so -pthread -shared mod_v8.os -L/home/work/tools/v8/lib -lm -lv8
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/local/lib/libv8.a when searching for -lv8
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lv8
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
scons: *** [libmod_v8.so] Error 1
scons: building terminated because of errors.

By: Michael O'Brien

Michael O'Brien — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:24:05 +0000

I should also add that we’ve got an early prototype of a mod_ejs working for running Ejscript server side also. I’ll post more when it is available.

By: Michael O'Brien

Michael O'Brien — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:21:32 +0000

Quick update on Ejscript. We are adding full ECMAScript 3.1 compatibility and plan to release early this year. We’ve focussed on getting the basics working (VM, Module loader, compiler and system library) and getting it working in some web servers for server side Javascript.

What is being added now is prototype inheritance and quite few compatibility issues. We plan to pass the Mozilla SpiderMonkey test suites and the SunSpider benchmarks. Then you can have your cake and eat it too — either class based or prototype based inheritance.

By: Olle Lundberg

Olle Lundberg — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:15:14 +0000

Even modjs

By: Olle Lundberg

Olle Lundberg — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:13:27 +0000

Those of you interesting in running javascript on the server with libraries for database and other io can take a look at JSEXT or perhaps helma

By: Stubby

Stubby — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:14:47 +0000

Cool. I use Microsoft JScript and ASP on a site, and it’s very handy to use the same language on both the client and server side. For example, the same JSON.js file works on both sides. Mentally it’s a lot less taxing to switch between the two languages.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:44:37 +0000

This is really exciting and I do hope that viable SSJS comes to us all in 2009.

Tie it into the multitudes of already available FOSS libraries (database, graphics libraries, etc..) and what more does anyone need?!

By: Javascript como lenguaje de servidor — edgar.js weblog

Javascript como lenguaje de servidor — edgar.js weblog — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:32:07 +0000

[...] cliente, es decir que se ejecuta en el navegador del visitante. Pero parece que ahora el autor del mod _v8 busca que javascript se pueda utilizar como lenguaje de servidor, como otros lenguajes ya conocidos [...]

By: Olle Lundberg

Olle Lundberg — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:51:05 +0000

The downside with EJScript is their incompliance with EcmaScript-262, which means no prototypal inheritance. Without PI ES is just another Classic OOP language with syntactic sugar.

By: Jon Toland

Jon Toland — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:28:27 +0000

My bad looks like they've done that already!!

By: Jon Toland

Jon Toland — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:09:10 +0000

Interesting idea! Have you thought about Ejscript in lieu of V8? They were represented on the ES4 board (as was Google) before it got disbanded but are continuing down that path. It's basically ActionScript 3 if you're familiar with it (in my opinion the best parts of both Java and JavaScript) sans Adobe and also implemented in C.

By: Kris Kowal

Kris Kowal — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:34:34 +0000

V8 is really amazing to work with. I modified the provided shell to accept shebang notation and read and write files in less than a day. My goal is to add support for “include” and “require” so that scripts run in isolated namespaces, as with modules in Chiron, so that the standard library I’m building can be used both server and client side. Ultimately, I think that these projects need to be about writing AJAX features once, not twice nor in different languages, for the server and client.

I attended Steve Yegge’s talk at Google IO. I believe, since he’s made extensions to Rhino that definitely don’t work on the client side, that the primary interest in JavaScript on the server is to provide a better balance between quick and easy fringe features and robust and hard features. That’s a good point, but not as painful and obvious in systems where both the server and client are in dynamic languages. I think that the goal should be portability and sharing code with no necessary modification.

By: Zack Steinkamp

Zack Steinkamp — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:41:29 +0000

Cool! That was pretty easy to get going on a Linux machine. What’s left? Exposing the apache request_rec as a JS object would take it much farther.

By: mod_v8: 伺服器端的 JavaScript 引擎 @ 國二學生認真打雜

mod_v8: 伺服器端的 JavaScript 引擎 @ 國二學生認真打雜 — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:48:13 +0000

[...] 消息來源是這裡，這位老兄之前玩過 Rhino（Mozilla 專案下的用 Java 寫成的 JavaScript 引擎）之後有成功運用 Rhino 弄了 server-side 的 JavaScript 引擎（成果在此），後來 V8 的出現之後，他就努力地想把 V8 搬到伺服器上，所以他宣稱目前 mod_v8 可以在 httpd 2.4 上執行，未來等到他完成一些文件之後，其它人也可以拿到機器上 build 玩玩看。 [...]

By: Ajaxian » mod_v8: Another Server Side JavaScript

Ajaxian » mod_v8: Another Server Side JavaScript — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:08:04 +0000

[...] Querna wrote a fun little Apache module called mod_v8 that offers a proof of concept of Yet Another Server Side [...]

By: Manu

Manu — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:44:19 +0000

Awesome. I hope this turns out into a solid project