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Scripting Languages for Java |
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Object Computing's March 2001 issue of the Java News Brief takes a look at two open-source scripting languages for Java: Rhino and Jython. Rhino is the Mozilla Project's implementation of JavaScript in Java, while Jython is an implementation of Python for the JVM. The Java developer can use these scripting languages for exploratory programming and testing or for user-level scripting of applications.
Since the release of JDK 1.0 in 1995, many popular languages have been re-implemented in Java. These re-implementations usually give its users the ability to access any Java classes in the JVM. Some are even capable of compiling arbitrary scripts into Java class files. At the same time, many languages gained the ability to access the JVM and all the classes in it in their original C implementations. Here is a partial list of languages that I have found on the internet as free software:
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| | read more | mail this link | score:8067 | -HamishLawson, March 8, 2001 (Updated: August 18, 2003) |
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