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 ...

What does scripting language actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

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 ...

A lot of people find scripting languages very productive and we’ve seen quite a few chips now supporting what you normally think of as a scripting language.

It is easy to dismiss scripting languages, but they are perfect for some applications. ChaiScript and similar tools let you build the hard parts the hard way and the easy parts the easy way.

“BeanShell is a small, free, embeddable, Java source interpreter with object scripting language features, written in Java…You can use BeanShell interactively for Java experimentation and ...

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

The Mac equivalent of WSH is OSA, the Open Scripting Architecture. AppleScript is the best-supported language, but it tends to infuriate programmers; fortunately, there are a third-party ...

A handful of holes appear in different versions of a common open-source scripting language, PHP, and could allow attackers to crash an Apache Web site or compromise a server.