Updates to come in the company’s next version of the Java, code-named Mustang, include language-processing, security and networking feature.
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The Rhino JS engine is excelent. I’ve used it for pluggable code blocks in a couple of projects and it’s a simple way to code business rules without actually having to write a real rules engine.
I can see some merit in including it by default, however at the same time I think the core is rather bloated with functionality that could be modular.
A lot of the XML binding stuff, Corba etc doesn’t really add much to the attractiveness of the API, but size wise it all adds up. I’d rather see a focus on the more common parts and their quality rather than the constant addition of new APIs.
Java is being used by the majority of the financial institution and drives the majority of the important webservices. Don’t judge if you don’t know what you are talking about.
methinks there was some sarcasm in Pax’s words.
http://www.jroller.com/page/fate/20050614#java6_delightful_new_feat…
anything with the name mustang has to be good.
I would like to see Sun fix the fugly font rendering under linux rather than seing the built-in JS engine. I don’t even think JS is suitable for scripting Java since IMHO they’re not very well integrated (JS string != Java String, etc.).
Beanshell is much better sutied for scripting java since it can actually run pure Java code and there is no confusion about what is what, although performance of bsh should be improved. I do think there is a JSR for inclusion of bsh in the next Java as well.
I thought that was supposed to be the ‘One True Java Scripting Language’?
Plus, surely Java can simply be interpreted at runtime and used for scripting, rather than bolting on another language.
If they want a different language though, why they dont just use Jython and be done with it?.
Theres no point in having a Javascript engine when you dont support the browser-based HTML DOM that every single Javascript programmer is used to using. Sure, you can do general purpose programming with Javascript and Java objects, but why the hell would you ever want to?
Roll on Open Source Java, maybe then we might see somebody giving Java developers features they actually want.