Decades of business software were written in dBase, Clipper and FoxPro, and a surprising amount of it still runs. Salinas brings that world to modern Java: a scripting engine for xBase-style languages, a terminal desktop for working with data, and a data engine that reads and writes DBF files directly.
The Salinas engine plugs into any Java application through the standard JSR-223 scripting API. The Salinas desktop adds a command window, table browser, field editor and code editor in the terminal.
. USE customers
. ? "Hello from Salinas"
Hello from Salinas
. LIST
Record# NAME CITY
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1 Mission Bakery San Francisco
2 Harbor Hardware Monterey
3 Bayside Florist Santa Cruz
4 Valley Feed Salinas
. GOTO 4
. REPLACE CITY WITH "Watsonville"
. DISPLAY
Record# 4
NAME : Valley Feed
CITY : Watsonville
. INDEX ON NAME TO names
. BROWSE
| NAME | CITY |
|---|---|
| Mission Bakery | San Francisco |
| Harbor Hardware | Monterey |
| Bayside Florist | Santa Cruz |
| Valley Feed | Watsonville |
.
Illustrative output · real commands
Reading a DBF file with jdbfDriver
DBF dbf = DBF.use("customers.dbf");
while (!dbf.eof()) {
System.out.println(dbf.getString("NAME"));
dbf.skip();
}
dbf.close();
// Run an xBase program through JSR-223
ScriptEngine engine = new ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByName("xbase");
engine.eval(new FileReader("report.prg"));