Jeff Friesen’s Beginning Java SE 6 Platform: From Novice to Professional is out now from Apress. In this article Jeff introduces you to his new book by presenting excerpts from its chapter on the Java ...

In addition, Java SE 6 includes built-in support for script engines, and JSR 223 defines a standard interface to interact with dynamic languages running on the Java platform. In order to take ...

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 ...

BEA Systems--a company long committed to the Java programming language--plans to support alternative scripting languages in upcoming products. As part of its long-term plans, BEA is considering ways ...

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“Scala fixes problems with Java, like verbosity and limitations in Java’s support for object-oriented programming. In addition, Scala supports functional programming-an approach that has been around ...

Groovy 3 tries to close some of the feature gaps that have opened up with recent versions of Java New control flow features include do-while and the enhanced for loop Java-style Lambda Expressions ...