Ejscript™ Features

The Ejscript product includes the following components:

• Ejscript Compiler (ec)
• Ejscript Shell Interpreter (ejs)
• Ejscript Module Manager (ejsmod)
• Ejscript Virtual Machine (ejsvm)
• Documentation
• Samples
• Source code

Feature Overview

Embeddable and Configurable

• Configure program to tailor builds from source code
• Build configuration settings available to script programs
• Conditional compilation for scripts
• Support for ROM based programs and XIP

Virtual Machine

• High performance C VM
• Generational garbage collector
• Slab based object allocation for very fast object creation
• Very compact, high level byte code designed for data intensive applications

Development Tools

• HTML documentation generation
• Symbolic assembler listings
• Command shell interpreter
• Stand-alone optimizing compiler
• Eclipse based IDE and debugger (Not yet released)

Modular

• Compiler generates module files with automatic module dependency handling
• Ability to load script and binary modules at run-time

Extensive System Library

• HTTP and SSL
• Sockets
• File System, File I/O
• Streams, BinaryStream, TextStream, StringStream
• Events
• Timers
• Application context
• System context

Extensible

• Easy to extend via native classes
• Core classes can be subclassed and extended

Source Code

• Clean, modular commented source code
• Documentation for source code
• Cross-platform and portable

Documentation

• Script API documentation
• C VM API documentation for creating native classes
• Samples
• Tutorials