With the release of Scala 2.11 it became fully JSR-223 compliant scripting language for Java. JSR-223 is the community request to allow scripting language to have an interface to Java and to allow Java to use the scripting language inside of applications.

In Java 8 the Nashorn scripting engine was released as a native component of the JDK to support JavaScript with applications. This is possible through another JSR in Java 7 – namely JSR-229, which brings support for invoke dynamics, a way to support dynamic programming by the Java byte code compiler. Nashorn can be seen as a proof of concept of this newly added functionality. Continue reading “Scripting Scala – JSR-223” →