Scripting initiative would capitalize on languages widely used in Web applications and considered easier to use than Java.

Developers have welcomed Sun's release of Java Standard Edition 6, which gives better support for scripting languages and web services ...

Scripting initiative would capitalize on languages widely used in Web applications and considered easier to use than Java.

Sun releases Java Standard Edition 6, a Java desktop update meant to work better with scripting languages.

A scripting language can give your Java programs power they wouldn't ordinarily have. Utilities such as IBM's Bean Scripting Framework make hooking Tcl, Python, Perl, and other scripting languages ...

The Java platforms (J2SE and J2EE) are filled with rich and useful features, making Java an extremely useful resource for more than mere programming. To use Java, a good scripting tool is needed.

Latest release of the JVM language also features hundreds of new and improved extension methods including 10x faster arrays.

It prompted me to look at Python-like scripting languages that run in a Java environment. In this article, I discuss Jython and Groovy, two scripting languages that use the Java runtime environment.