Build your own scripting language for Java

submited by krishnas on Tue Aug 14th, 2007

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 languages would take textual code as input from a Java program and return the evaluation result back. Others would keep references to objects in a Java program, invoke methods on those objects, or create new instances of a Java class. Because each language would communicate with Java in its own way, developers would have to learn the script engine's proprietary programming interface every

Topic: java java6