Nothing listed here is directly supported by the BSF developers. If you encounter any problems with them, please use the contact information. Failing that, a query to the bsf-users mailing list may help.

BeanShell

"BeanShell is a small, free, embeddable, Java source interpreter with object scripting language features, written in Java. BeanShell executes standard Java statements and expressions, in addition to obvious scripting commands and syntax. BeanShell supports scripted objects as simple method closures like those in Perl and JavaScript(tm)." Compatibility: BSF 2.2 and above URL: http://www.beanshell.org/ Contact: project mailing lists License: Dual Licensed: Sun Public License / Gnu Lesser Public License

Rhino

"Rhino is an open-source implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java. It is typically embedded into Java applications to provide scripting to end users." Compatibility: Rhino 1.5.1-1.5.3, with BSF 2.3 and above URL: http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/ Contact: Rhino Contact Page License: Mozilla Public License, version 1.1

Jython

"Jython is an implementation of the high-level, dynamic, object-oriented language Python written in 100% Pure Java, and seamlessly integrated with the Java platform. It thus allows you to run Python on any Java platform." Compatibility: Jython 2.1, with BSF 2.2 and above URL: http://www.jython.org/ Contact: Jython Mailing lists License: Jython Software License

JPython

"JPython is a new implementation of the Python programming language which is designed to run on SUN's Java(tm) Platform. It consists of a compiler to compile Python source code down to Java bytecodes which can run directly on a JVM, a set of support libraries which are used by the compiled Java bytecodes, and extra support to make it trivial to use Java packages from within JPython." NOTE: new development has shifted to Jython Compatibility: JPython 1.03, with BSF 2.2 and above (succeeded by Jython) URL: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/resources/ums/java/packages/JPython1.1/html/ Contact: JPython mailing list archives License: JPython Software License

Jacl

"Jacl, which stands for Java Command Language, is a Java implementation of TCL 8.x." Compatibility: Jacl 1.2.6, with BSF 2.2 and above URL: http://tcl.activestate.com/software/java/ Contact: comp.lang.tcl newsgroup License: Sun, ORO, and UCB licenses (see source)

NetRexx

"NetRexx is a human-oriented programming language which makes writing and using Java classes quicker and easier than writing in Java." Compatibility: NetRexx 2.0.2, with BSF 2.2 and above URL: http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/netrexx/ Contact: NetRexx 2 mailing list License: IBM License Agreement for IBM Employee-Written Software

JRuby

"JRuby is a pure Java implementation of the Ruby interpreter, being developed by Jan Arne Petersen and others." Compatibility: BSF 2.2 and above URL: http://jruby.sourceforge.net/ Contact: Jan Arne Petersen License: dual GPL/LGPL

JudoScript

"Judoscript is a 3GL-and-4GL; it retains 3GL's powerful programmability, and extends its reach into many of today's popular applications areas with 4GL approach (figuratively, "WYSIWYG programming"), making their uses easy, effective and elegant." Compatibility: BSF 2.2 and above URL: http://www.judoscript.com/ Contact: James Huang License: LGPL

Xalan

"Xalan-Java is an XSLT processor for transforming XML documents into HTML, text, or other XML document types. It implements the W3C Recommendations for XSL Transformations (XSLT) and the XML Path Language (XPath). It can be used from the command line, in an applet or a servlet, or as a module in other program." Compatibility: Xalan 2.2 and above (XSLT), with BSF 2.3 and above URL: http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/index.html Contact: Apache XML Project "Get Involved" page License: Apache Software License