The Jython development community has announced the release of Jython 2.2, "the first production release of Jython in nearly six years." Available for download from the Jython web site, the new release ...

Three years ago, I wrote an article for JavaWorld called “Java Scripting Languages: Which Is Right for You?” When I collected the interpreters to compare, I tried to choose ones that seemed a good fit ...

Maybe you're writing a Java program, and you need to do a quick one-off script to clean up your database. You could write it in Java, but that can involve a lot of overhead for a quick script. You ...

So, a couple of questions for the hive mind. I'm curious, what is the design argument for embedding a scripting language in an application?<BR><BR>I'm a developer, and I've used Perl and Python plenty ...

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Anyone who has followed software development tools during the last decade knows that the term “Java” refers to a pair of technologies: the Java programming language and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).