Jakarta BSF versions

There are two different versions of Jakarta BSF. These have different APIs.

• The original version of BSF is represented by the BSF 2.x releases (current version 2.4), and uses an API which was originally developed at IBM.
• The new version of Jakarta BSF is represented by the 3.x release (current version 3.0). The 3.x version uses the API defined as part of JSR-223 (javax.script), which is included in Java 1.6 onwards. However BSF 3.0 will run on Java 1.4+, allowing access to JSR-223 scripting for Java 1.4 and Java 1.5.

Thank you for using BSF from the Apache Jakarta Project

Note: The tar files in the distribution use GNU tar extensions and must be untarred with a GNU compatible version of tar. The version of tar on Solaris and Mac OS X will not work with these files

Many of the files have been digitally signed using GnuPG. If so, there will be an accompanying file.asc signature file in the same directory as the file (binaries/ or source/). The signing keys can be found in the distribution directory at http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/bsf/KEYS.

Always download the KEYS file directly from the Apache site, never from a mirror site.

Always test available signatures, e.g.,
$ pgpk -a KEYS
$ pgpv bsf-bin-2.4.0.tar.gz.asc
or,
$ pgp -ka KEYS
$ pgp  bsf-bin-2.4.0.tar.gz.asc
or,
$ gpg --import KEYS
$ gpg --verify  bsf-bin-2.4.0.tar.gz.asc