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INTRODUCTION:

JavaScript.pm - Execute JavaScript from within Perl

JavaScript.pm is an interface to the SpiderMonkey JS engine. It lets you execute JS code, 
call JS functions, bind Perl classes to JS, import Perl functions to JS, precompile and exeute 
scripts among many other things. It does conversion between Perl and JS datatypes.

Example:

use JavaScript;

$rt = new JavaScript::Runtime();
$cx = $rt->create_context();
$cx->eval(q!
function test(a, b, c) {
	return a * b * c;
}
!);

print "4 * 5 * 2 = " . $cx->call("test", 4, 5, 2);


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INSTALLATION:

To install JavaScript.pm, make sure you have libjs installed. Otherwize, grab a recent one from 
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/js. The module is tested with 1.5 and later.

Once libjs is installed and jsapi.h and other necessery headers can be found do:

> perl Makefile.PL
> make
> make test
> make install


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DOCUMENTATION:

usage reference is available as POD, simply do

> perldoc JavaScript


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INFORMATION:

= Official website is http://labs.contiller.se/JavaScript/
= Support is available on IRC on channel #javascript.pm on irc.infobot.org
= Mailing list is on the way, perl-javascript@perl.org, send an empty email to perl-javascript-subscribe@perl.org

Please send questions/patches/docs/comments to "Claes Jacobsson", CLAESJAC@cpan.org


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THANKS:

SpiderMonkey creators at Netscape and Mozilla.org

#perl on irc.infobot.org for support and feedback (ingy, Addi, sky, Co-Kane, sheriff_p, crab and everyone else i forgot to mention).


COPYRIGHT:
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Copyright (c) 2001, Claes Jacobsson, All Rights Reserved.
JavaScript.pm is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify 
it under the same conditions as perl itself.

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