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kushp

Languages Used in Orbeon

Just a wiki question...

I've gone through the orbeon-form repository GitHub. The languages used to develop Orbeon are: Scala, Java, JavaScript, XForms, XSLT, and other XML technologies.

Some languages are subject to obvious use. For e.g XForms, XSLT, JavaScript and one programming language for the backend. I'm interested to know why Scala and Jave both are used? Do they serve some special purpose which otherwise might be difficult to implement for either of the languages?

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Alessandro Vernet

Re: Languages Used in Orbeon

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Hi Kush,

For server-side code, we started using Scala in 2010. Since then, pretty
much any new server-side code is written in Scala, and quite a bit of
pre-existing Java code has been rewritten in Scala. The same has been
happening for client-side code, but only in the last couple of years, so
most of the client-side code is still in JavaScript. (And as you noticed, we
also use quite a bit of XForms, and other XML technologies.)

Alex

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