Re: Brain Dump of Towards FIT 1.0 OpenSpace session

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> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Al Chou" <[email protected]>
> To: "FIT Developers" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 5:18 PM
> Subject: RE: [Fit-dev] Brain Dump of Towards FIT 1.0 OpenSpace session
> 
> 
> > I couldn't find a saved message that made sense to reply to, so I'm adding
> it
> > to this thread.
> >
> > Lately I've been thinking more than usual about cross-language
> compatibility,
> > and I wonder whether anyone has mentioned trying to add BSF capability to
> FIT
> > or FitNesse so that any language that's been implemented in Java (Jython,
> > Tcl/Java [Jacl and/or Tcl Blend], JRuby, JScheme, and many many others) or
> can
> > do Java FFI could be used to write fixtures.  I was pleasantly surprised
> to
> > discover that a future version of Eclipse should have BSF included.
> 
> Say what? I'm having a severe case of acronoym overload. What's
> a BSF, what's a FFI? I recognise Jython, so the rest of the languages
> in that clause are ok.
> 
> In any case, Fitnesse doesn't care - writing fixtures in one language
> to drive an application in another language is a FIT issue.
> 
> John Roth

Sorry.

BSF = Bean Scripting Framework, born at IBM, now at Apache
http://jakarta.apache.org/bsf/

FFI = foreign function interface

I may have misunderstood, but I thought I had read remarks about FitNesse
calling fixtures written in languages other than Java.


Al

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Albert Davidson Chou

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