Weather. In this article I’ve introduced some of the fundamentals of the Java Scripting API and shown how you can use it in an Ajax programming example involving a Swing-based mashup.

Because each language would communicate with Java in its own way, developers would have to learn the script engine’s proprietary programming interface every time they wanted to use a script ...

It prompted me to look at Python-like scripting languages that run in a Java environment ... function that then passes the result to the JVM. Here is a simple program that uses the Java Swing library ...

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 ...

For managed code development, the byte-code based Java and .NET virtual machines both support multiple programming languages. When you need to mix programming and scripting languages you will ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: In recent years, Google search trends show that searches for the word "Java" are declining slightly, and searches for scripting language names, like JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Python ...

Java also has a very rigid and predictable set of rules that govern code structure. This contrasts starkly with other, untyped scripting languages where it seems like anything goes. When you try to ...

Java, JavaScript and Python are invariably the three most popular programming languages in several indexes, but their exact order varies depending on how the ranking is calculated. Lately most ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...