Since some days I'm thinking about using rhino (javascript) to make magnolia customizable.

Now I like to get some feedback form the audience before I think farther.

Primar thoughts:

• our main developers are weboriented and know javascript
• If something is configured in a scripting language it is very felxible
• It reduces the abstract step to a configuration file like xml
• You can adapt functions (like the activation) without downloading the sources

Configuration
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The startup script is written in javascript and if you need to instantiate an other cache-handler for example you just do
it by changing this startup file.

Let's call this IoC by scripting

Changing Execution
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Methods like activation could be extracted to a script like activate.js which one could adapt without subclassing.

Shell

We could include Rhinos shell this would it make easy to analyze data:

• dump data
• change data
• queries