In order to take advantage of the many possibilities opened up by scripting on the Java platform, you should clearly understand the challenges and benefits involved. You need to understand what ...

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 ...

In a not-so-surprising revelation, Sun plans to support the Python and Jython scripting languages in future releases of the open-source NetBeans IDE, which has been expanding beyond its Java origins ...

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 ...

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 ...