Server-side javascript on Apache server

[Luiz]

Hi people,

Please, does anybody know which is, nowadays, the best choice to run
server-side javascript on Apache server?

Thanks in advance!

Luiz

 

[Ben Crowell]

Hi people,

Please, does anybody know which is, nowadays, the best choice to run
server-side javascript on Apache server?

Is there any alternative to rhino? I'm not very impressed with rhino.
I only played with it for a short time before I found an example where
its parser went into an endless loop. Also, rhino is written in java, so
you have to start up a java vm every time you execute a script using
rhino. If you have a persistent java vm process, I guess you can invoke
scripts without the performance hit.

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Please, does anybody know which is, nowadays, the best choice to run
server-side javascript on Apache server?

Probably yes. As for the choices you have, Google is your friend. [psf 6.1]


PointedEars

 

[Ben Crowell]

some examples:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-side_JavaScript

It looks like the three most commonly used with apache are
spidermonkey, rhino, and ejscript.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_(JavaScript_engine)
http://www.ejscript.org/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderMonkey_(Javascript_engine)

If I'm understanding correctly, rhino actually compiles js to java
bytecode. So although invoking it via a shell has the performance
overhead associated with starting up a java vm, it might actually
be faster than spidermonkey if your java vm is persistent.