Users Guide
After having set up MyFaces Ext-Scripting (if you do not have done so please go to ourInstallation Page), you basically can start editing, and be done with the users guide.
Well theoretically anyway, there are some things every user of Extension-Scripting has to take into consideration.
First of all Ext-Scripting in its current incarnation tries to help the programmers every day life. That means, it tries to reduce the number of needed server restarts to the lowest possible minimum which is achievable within the boundaries of Java and JSF. Also it is not yet fully integrated into the bigger application servers, testing only currently is done for Apache Tomcat and Jetty. Scala due to the nature of its compiler interface, definitely only will work in an expanded embedded WAR environment, not in an EAR environment.
You won't get a zero restart configuration, Extension-Scripting tries not to be perfect in this regard, but what you can achieve is a significant reduction on restarts by applying scripting languages and dynamic compilation.
Secondly, we do not try to support every scripting language under the earth, the basic goal is first to get the basics right and then in subsequent releases to add additional scripting languages support.
As is, every scripting language which can compile against the JVM can be supported. Purely interpreted languages are not supported.
For now we cannot recommend to use Ext-Scripting in a production environment for live patches, although it theoretically would be possible, and we spent a lot of blood sweat and tears into making the system stable under multithreaded conditions. For now, however, we simply only can recommend to use Ext-Scripting for development and development only scenarios if you need to hot patch code (deployment without any changes however should be fine). So if you want to hot patch a running installations, we assume it should work fine, but you are on your own.