306825 - Allow to use shell.Global in servlets

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Rhino Graveyard :: Core, defect, P5)

Description

[Igor Bukanov]

Currently org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Global is not usable in servlet
environment since it stores its state in the static variables in
org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Main. When Rhino is used as system library
for a servlet container, such static variables prevents application reload or to
use several application instances in the servlet container.

It causes code duplication as applications are forced to duplicate the
functionality that is otherwise exposed to scripts via top level function
provided by Global.

Comment 1

[Igor Bukanov]

Attachment: Implementation

The patch replaces the code that uses static variables from shell.Main by
extracting necessary information either from Context or Function instances
passed to Global functions. Similar treatment is applied to the methods from
shell.Main that are called from Global.

The patch also adds new utility methods to Global and the debugger to simplify
creating, initialization and usage of Global instances.

Comment 2

[Igor Bukanov]

Reassigning to [e-mail] pending resolution of bug 288433

Comment 3

[Norris Boyd]

Changing priority to P5 based on recent bug triage.

Comment 4

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Closing. Bug management is now done here:
https://github.com/mozilla/rhino