Another look at Groovy (Latest java based scripting language)

I have the same issue and I quote :
“Beanshell is slow as it is interpreted. So what we need is a compiled beanshell to get best of both the worlds. I think I just might have a solution. More on it later.”
Enlighten us please,what is this solution?
did you find anything that works like beanshell but is faster ?
thanks

I don’t think we needed another scripting language…
Javascript perfectly combines with java (if only people were able to understand that javascript is not only for building a web page) and mozilla Rhino has proved it.
And now finally we are beginning to see technology built upon it. How about seppia ? https://www.seppia.org

Seppia is combines ecmascript (javascript) into java and allows you to build any application from its constituent parts.

Thanks everyone for your helpful comments and suggestions.
It is your participation that makes the effort worthwhile.

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Emh.. sorry.. I meant.. Maybe what you want is a type inferencer for java.

In that case I suggest you take a look at Nice. It is basically a better java featuring real closures, multimethod dispatch and type inference.

Nice seems quite strange at a first look, but indeed it is very powerful and pleasant language, and compiles to bytecode withouth great performance losses (au contraire that groovy)

Groovy is pretty nice. I was skeptical too at first, but then I caught Dion Almaer’s prez at the No Fluff Just Stuff tour in Boston a couple weeks ago. The amount of syntactic sugar is dizzying. It is significantly different from Java, enough to make it just another programming language. I mean, what you said about switching between languages for Java and Groovy you could just as well say about Java and Ruby or PERL. They’re just different (although, sure, you could code Java in Groovy, but why?).

The main things I like about Groovy are the support for XML, Ant, Web services, closures, the ability to code Strings without worrying about concatenation, the execute() method added to the String object, and the fact that you can compile Groovy scripts to Java class files, which implies, for example, you can now compile Ant builds into class files and deliver a jar instead of an XML file for a productized Ant script. Plus, Groovy is in progress to be supported by the JCP as the first language other than Java to be standardized on the Java platform. That will ensure strong support for Groovy users/programmers for the future.

Based on your comments above, Janino seems like a reasonable match to your constraints.

You know you want to try Ruby, it’ll make you feel good

man, i’ll never understood why every body seems so scared to introduce new tools in their bags. groovy is just another great language with the same potential as java (which, by the way, wasn’t a very developer-friendly one) and the software built with it will be as good as the developer team. so don’t worry at all… if you’ve done nice applications with java now you got a way to make the new ones even better. just drop your prejudices and embrace the new wave