AVATAR 2.0

More than just Node.js
on the Java Virtual Machine

We are to hire

Nashorn

Nashorn

Java & JavaScript

...are similar than car and carpet are similar.

Nashorn

Command line client

$ $JAVA_HOME/bin/jjs
jjs> print('Hello Nashorn!');

ScriptEngine engine = new ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByName("nashorn");
engine.eval("print('Hello Nashorn!');");

engine.eval(new FileReader("scriptfile.js"));

Invocable invocable = (Invocable) engine;
Object result = invocable.invokeFunction("jsSayHello", "Nashorn");

Nashorn

Invoking Java from JavaScript

static String sayHello(String name) {
    return String.format("Hello %s from Java!", name);
}

var MyJavaClass = Java.type('my.package.MyJavaClass');
var result = MyJavaClass.sayHello('Nashorn');
print(result); // Hello Nashorn from Java!

Avatar-js

Threads &

Inter-Thread

Communication

Message Bus

var avatar = require('org/glassfish/avatar');
var threads = require('org/glassfish/avatar/threads');
var app = avatar.application;
var name = app.name;
var bus = app.bus;

// listen for messages on topic 'hello'
bus.on('hello', function(body, msg) {
    print(name + ' got message: ' + JSON.stringify(body));
});

// publishing to 'hello' topic (e.g. in file hello.js):
bus.publish('hello', { x : 'x', y : 'y' });

// start a background thread for publishing
threads.newBackgroundThread('background', 'hello.js').start();

Shared State

var avatar = require('org/glassfish/avatar');
var state = avatar.application.state;

state.put('key', {'value': 'myValue'});

state.keys(); // -> Array
state.contains('key'); // -> boolean
state.get('key'); // -> Object
state.remove('key'); // -> void

Avatar Persistence

Model-Store-API

Model-Store API

database setup

var store = avatar.newStore(‘mysql’, {
    host: 'localhost',
    port: 3306,
    database: 'test',
    username: 'root',
    createDb: true
});

• JPA (Eclipselink) / JDBC based
• relational and non-relational
• user-transactions possible

Model-Store API

var Family = avatar.newModel('family', {
        "name" : {
            type : "string",
            primary : true
        },
        "description" : "string"
    });

var Product = avatar.newModel('product', {
        "name" : {
            type : "string",
            primary : true
        },
        "madeBy" : "string",
        "price" : "number",
        "quantity" : "integer"
    });

Model-Store API

Family.hasMany(Product, {
    as : 'products',
    foreign : 'family'
});

store.bind(Family, Product);

Model-Store API

store.connect(function() {
    Product.create({
        name: 'Widget',
        price: 1.00,
        quantity: 2,
    }, function(err, w1) {
        console.log(JSON.stringify(w1));
        store.disconnect(function() {
            // done
        });
    });
});