Javax Scripting
The Java community is really excited about JSR 223 which will bring scripting to the Java platform. My first session day went over the new Scripting API in Java SE 6, the next major release of Java. By the time I entered this session I had already attended several session that focused on the Scripting on the Java platform so there wasn’t a lot of information in this session that was new to me. What I noted from this session is the large number of scripting languages now available to a Java developer. Scheme, Pnut, JRuby, Jython, JavaScript, and Groovy are just some of the script languages available in the JVM. I also discovered that Java SE 6 will introduce a new command line application jrunscript.exe that can be used to invoke a script file. At this point, jrunscript.exe in still designated as experimental and is intended to be available only with the JDK.
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