Before Java Specification Request (JSR) 223, Scripting for the Java Platform, (and its predecessor, the Bean Scripting Framework, or BSF), many languages were already communicating with Java. Some ...

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Some Java applications’ requirements make integration with a scripting language necessary. For example, your users may need to write scripts that drive the application, extend it, or contain loops and ...

“BeanShell is a small, free, embeddable, Java source interpreter with object scripting language features, written in Java…You can use BeanShell interactively for Java experimentation and debugging or ...

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Question: What is "scripting"? I've heard Internet people talk about "writing a script to do this" and "writing a script to do that," but I've no idea what they mean. Answer: When people talk about ...

A high-level programming language that is interpreted (translated on the fly) rather than compiled ahead of time. A scripting language may be a general-purpose programming language or it may be ...

Sun has released a Java development kit that seeks to meld Java and scripting languages. Java Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6), released on Monday, is used to create Java programs that run on desktop ...