E4X not work with rhino

[Atry]

Binary package hint: rhino

$ rhino
Rhino 1.7 release 1 2008 10 20
js> var x=<xxx/>;
js: "<stdin>", line 2: uncaught JavaScript runtime exception: ReferenceError: "XML" is not defined.
 at <stdin>:2

[krouskop (krouskop)]

Workaround I'm using in Intrepid:

Download rhino1_7R1.zip from Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/download.html).

Extract js.jar from that zip.

Replace /usr/share/java/js-1.7R1.jar with the js.jar you just extracted.

[Martin Jackson (mhjacks)]

Since as of Intrepid we have libxmlbeans-java packaged, could we enable E4X to build in the Rhino package? Here's the message from the rhino changelog:

rhino (1.6.R5-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed Wolfgang Baer from Uploaders and added myself.
  * Fixed FTBFS: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused.
    Was trying to download xmlbeans Jar, which is not allowed. As
    this Jar is not (yet) in Debian, rhino has been built with XML
    implementation disabled.

[Alan Bell (alanbell)]

I think (but I am not certain) that this bug is breaking a lot of the alfresco-community functionality in particular the wiki in the alfresco share area.

[Alan Bell (alanbell)]

yes, it does affect alfresco-community. A lot of the Alfresco dashlets (bits in the portal area) depend on E4X and assume it is provided by Rhino, I used the workaround above and downloaded rhino1_7R2.zip and overwrote /usr/share/java/js-1.7R1.jar with the js.jar from the zip file, restarted the computer (although restarting tomcat would have been sufficient and now it works fine.

[Alan Bell (alanbell)]

logged the issue with Alfresco too, this isn't really an upstream bug report though as they can't fix it. https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALFCOM-3317

[Damien Raude-Morvan (drazzib)]

Hi,

I've uploaded a new release of rhino to debian unstable.

 rhino (1.7R2-4) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Enable E4X support:
     - Build-Depends on libxmlbeans-java
     - Set JAR location in debian/ant.properties
     - Should fix (Closes: #567847) and (LP: #304702)
   * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.4 (no changes needed)
   * Fix small typo in rhino-jsc manpage
   * Fix debian/copyright: don't use symlink to license

This release should fix current issue on E4X.
Could someone from ubuntu team request a sync ?

Greetings,
--
Damien Raude-Morvan

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package rhino - 1.7R2-4

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rhino (1.7R2-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Enable E4X support:
    - Build-Depends on libxmlbeans-java
    - Set JAR location in debian/ant.properties
    - Should fix (Closes: #567847) and (LP: #304702)
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.4 (no changes needed)
  * Fix small typo in rhino-jsc manpage
  * Fix debian/copyright: don't use symlink to license
 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden> Sun, 09 May 2010 14:01:45 +0100

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Re-opening, since we reverted the fix for Maverick. Should be fixed for Natty, by pushing a couple of MIRs (xmlbeans, saxonb) and manually building xmlbeans in main.

[James Page (james-page)]

xmlbeans and saxonb now in main so E4X support can be re-enabled.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package rhino - 1.7R2-4ubuntu2

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rhino (1.7R2-4ubuntu2) natty; urgency=low

  * Re-enable E4X support (LP: #304702):
    - debian/control: Added Build-Depends on libxmlbeans-java
    - debian/ant.properties: Remove no-e4x flag
 -- James Page <email address hidden> Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:51:04 +0000