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 ...

Want to support all the scripting languages for Java? The Bean Scripting Framework, BSF, enables you to do just that with a simple API. We'll show you how in this article. Putting scripting support ...

Before Java Specification Request (JSR) 223, Scripting for the Java Platform, (and its predecessor, the Bean Scripting Framework, or BSF), many languages were already communicating with Java. Some ...

I recently returned from JavaOne 2005 in San Francisco. The show was impressive for a number of reasons. The attendance seemed to be about 30% larger than last year's. The same could be said for the ...

Sun has released a Java development kit that seeks to meld Java and scripting languages. Java Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6), released on Monday, is used to create Java programs that run on desktop ...

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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 ...

In the last year or two, interest in "alternative" languages on top of the Java Virtual Machine has grown exponentially, to the point where three languages were blessed with official acceptance in the ...