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Here we go! welcome on board :)

On 11/28/2012 11:43 PM, Frank Wienberg wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> here is another "outsider" who would like to contribute to the JS runtime
> format, if you are interested.
> I am co-founder of the Open Source project Jangaroo, and as such have been
> dealing with JavaScript-to-ActionScript-3 compilation for several years now.
> In response to Bernd Paradies blogging about FalconJS, I blogged about
> "simulating ActionScript 3 language features" extensively:
>
>     -
>     http://blog.jangaroo.net/2011/11/simulating-actionscript-in-javascript.html
>     -
>     http://blog.jangaroo.net/2011/12/simulating-actionscript-in-javascript.html
>     - http://blog.jangaroo.net/2012/01/simulating-actionscript-parameter.html
>     -
>     http://blog.jangaroo.net/2012/01/simulating-actionscript-rest-parameter.html
>
> All described solutions are actually implemented in the Jangaroo Runtime,
> which takes care of the code translated from AS3 to JS by the Jangaroo
> Compiler coming alive.
> In principle, we follow the "classic route", with the exception of how we
> simulate private members: see the first two blog posts.
> At first look the Jangaroo Runtime may seem overly complex to you, but it
> does many more things (class loading / dependency management; class
> initialization = execute static code at the right time; allow keeping
> generated JS code and source AS3 code as similar as possible; automatic
> method binding / correct "this", etc.), and the concepts described in the
> blob posts also work without these additional features.
> The Jangaroo Compiler is written in Java and has a separate code generator
> (well you obviously won't need the parser) which might be worth having a
> look at:
> https://github.com/CoreMedia/jangaroo-tools/blob/master/jangaroo/jangaroo-compiler/src/main/java/net/jangaroo/jooc/backend/JsCodeGenerator.java
> If you dare to use Maven ;-), it is really easy to play around with our
> code generation: Just set up your own projects within minutes, starting
> from an example project like
> https://github.com/fwienber/jooflash-app-template or
> https://github.com/CoreMedia/jangaroo-ext-as-examples .
>
> Greetings,
> -Frank-
>
> Frank Wienberg
> Software Architect & Jangaroo Evangelist
>
> *frank.wienberg@coremedia.com*
>
> * frank@jangaroo <frank@jangaroo.net>.net*
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