Script languages have been experiencing a renaissance over the past few years. There are many open-source projects such as Jython, Groovy and Bean Shell to allow the scripting environment to interact ...

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 ...

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.

Java is an object-oriented programming language. To create objects and meaningfully initialize them, a developer must use a Java constructor. Constructors are a critical part of software development ...

The most significant addition to the Java language since Sun Microsystems rewrote the collections API for Java 5 is the introduction of Java records. Java records address two significant pain points ...

This article presents an overview of what differentiates scripting languages such as Groovy, JRuby, and Jython from the Java language, discusses some of the challenges involved in scripting on the ...