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  <title>Lightweight Scripting for Java (BeanShell Version 2.x)</title>

  <description>BeanShell is a small, free, embeddable, Java source interpreter with

object scripting language features, written in Java. BeanShell executes

standard Java statements and expressions, in addition to obvious

scripting commands and syntax. BeanShell supports scripted objects as

simple method closures like those in Perl and JavaScript(tm). You can

use BeanShell interactively for Java experimentation and debugging or

as a simple scripting engine for your applications. In short: BeanShell

is a dynamically interpreted Java, plus some useful stuff. Another way

to describe it is to say that in many ways BeanShell is to Java as

Tcl/Tk is to C: BeanShell is embeddable - You can call BeanShell from

your Java applications to execute Java code dynamically at run-time or

to provide scripting extensibility for your applications.

Alternatively, you can call your Java applications and objects from

BeanShell; working with Java objects and APIs dynamically. Since

BeanShell is written in Java and runs in the same space as your

application, you can freely pass references to "real live" objects into

scripts and return them as results.

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With version 2.0 BeanShell becomes a fully Java compatible scripting

language. BeanShell is now capable of interpreting ordinary Java source

and loading .java source files from the class path. BeanShell scripted

classes are fully typed and appear to outside Java code and via

reflective inspection as ordinary classes. However their implementation

is fully dynamic and they may include arbitrary BeanShell scripts in

their bodies, methods, and constructors. Users may now freely mix

loose, unstructured BeanShell scripts, method closures, and full

scripted classes.</description>

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