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Interactive scripting pad for scala. It is available over telnet, http and swing. Read the guide at http://wiki.homecloud.ca/scripster. See building instructions.

So anyone can interact with a running application, having access to all or some of the application's objects.

What is so special about the scrispter? It has full syntax coloring and content assist, for starters! It can be embedded into any application and shares the same port for telnet as well as web access...

May add some more scripting languages in the future but otherwise I don't think this will evolve.

It may also get nicer.

Many examples are in the junits: test_src/razie/scripster/test/

Put some objects in a context and run a simple scala script:

val context = new ScalaScriptContext(null, "a", "1", "b", "2")
ScriptScala ("a+b").eval (context) getOrElse "?"

Create and add variables to the context, to pass to the next script:

 val ctx = new ScalaScriptContext(null, "a", "1", "b", "2")
 ScriptScala ("val c = a+b").interactive (ctx) 
 ScriptScala ("c").interactive (ctx) getOrElse "?"

Create a scripster server: razie.scripster.MainScripster.scala

Scripster.createServer(4445)

There's no security - need to add some. There's no mapping to a "normal" servlet. Jetty support etc.

The simplest application will define its domain model, a few contexts and just give users access to those objects in the respective contexts. That's Scripster for you!

Users are guided through what they can do with the domain objects by the available content assist...

You may want to create UIs to nice-ify the user interaction, but, once you have your domains and contexts, with Scripster, your basic app is up and running in less than 5 minutes.