RedBridge Update: JRubyScriptEngineManager

Today, I added two classes, JRubyScriptEngineManager and ServiceFinder, to RedBridge (JSR 223 JRuby engine). ServiceFinder is used from JRubyScriptEngineManager, and not for users. This update will be helpful especially for OS X users. Now, RedBridge works on both JDK 1.5 and 1.6 on OS X Java Update 4.

Since its first release, RedBridge hasn't had JRubyScriptEngineManager mainly because of copyright. JSR 223 JRuby Engine released from Scripting Project at dev.java.net has the same name and behavior class. Although I wrote that class, I couldn't simply include it in RedBridge since Sun has copyright. Thus, I've tested RedBridge on JDK 1.6 though RedBridge itself was compiled on JDK 1.5. However, after OS X's Java has been updated in last June, JDK 1.6's service discovery failed to locate RedBridge. So, I decided to write it. Like other classes of RedBridge, I totally rewrote JRubyScriptEgineManager, too, so that RedBridge won't suffer from unexpectd legal issues. The new JRubyScriptEngineManager isn't just an modified version of the old one. I wrote it as simple as possible because, I think, JSR 223 is, in many cases, used with frameworks. Keeping it vanilla would be better for users. Less headache.

Now, the snippet will be:

package redbridge;

import javax.script.ScriptEngine;
import javax.script.ScriptEngineManager;
import javax.script.ScriptException;
import org.jruby.embed.jsr223.JRubyScriptEngineManager;

public class EvalStringSample {

    private EvalStringSample() throws ScriptException {
        System.out.println("[" + getClass().getName() + "]");
        System.setProperty("org.jruby.embed.localcontext.scope", "singlethread");
        //ScriptEngineManager manager = new ScriptEngineManager();
        JRubyScriptEngineManager manager = new JRubyScriptEngineManager();
        ScriptEngine engine = manager.getEngineByName("jruby");
        engine.eval("p=9.0");
        engine.eval("q = Math.sqrt p");
        engine.eval("puts \"square root of #{p} is #{q}\"");
        System.out.println("q = " + engine.get("q"));
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws ScriptException {
        new EvalStringSample();
    }
}

Result:

[redbridge.EvalStringSample]
square root of 9.0 is 3.0
q = 3.0

JRubyScriptEngineManager can have a classloader in its constructor argument. When no classloader is given, JRubyScriptEngineManager uses System classloader. For example, to use a current context classloader:

JRubyScriptEngineManager manager =
    new JRubyScriptEngineManager(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());

See, Wiki at the RedBridge project for other usages.