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 ...

Extent-local variables would provide a way to share data both within a thread and with child threads in Java, making it easier to reason about data flow. Java could gain a capability for sharing ...