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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 ...

Scripting initiative would capitalize on languages widely used in Web applications and considered easier to use than Java.

A handful of holes appear in different versions of a common open-source scripting language, PHP, and could allow attackers to crash an Apache Web site or compromise a server.

A scripting language can give your Java programs power they wouldn't ordinarily have. Utilities such as IBM's Bean Scripting Framework make hooking Tcl, Python, Perl, and other scripting languages ...

It is easy to dismiss scripting languages, but they are perfect for some applications. ChaiScript and similar tools let you build the hard parts the hard way and the easy parts the easy way.

There are plenty of embedded scripting libraries and they provide some way for your code to access script resources and for script resources to access selected host variables and functions.

Yet judging from many vendors' plans, scripting is down-right trendy compared to, say, Java. Long-time Java devotees IBM and Oracle have both partnered with Zend Technologies to make a PHP work ...

Tech Tech Industry Microsoft embraces open-source scripting language Company unveils first beta of IronPython, a .Net implementation of Python, in hopes of luring programmers to Windows.

Programmers typically have to learn several languages to do their jobs. In the Apple world, that might include Objective-C to code Mac and iOS apps and AppleScript to automate common tasks. But ...