jyWebShell

jyWebShell is a simple Java/Struts-based web interface to a server-side Jython session. It uses the XmlHTTPRequest object where possible to provide a fast interface, but only degrades gracefully to using basic POST functionality as required. Sessions are provided RESTfully to clients. Jetty is used in the example below, but the web-application itself is container-agnostic. The author considers it to be a good, simple example of using each technology involved.

demo

I have created a Flash demo of jyWebShell in action; since it provides a full and unrestricted python environment and I don't have an appropriately-strong sandbox.

download

• jyWebShell-1.0.tar.gz (~5MB) contains the sources for jyWebShell as of Feb 21 2005; it was developed against and contains:

  • jython-2.1
  • java Struts 1.2.4
  • Jetty 4.2.23

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authored: jsled, 2005.02.21