Questions tagged [jsr223]

JSR223 (Scripting for the Java Platform) is the Java Specification Request for a common scripting engine abstraction layer.

As an example (from the Java Scripting Programmer's Guide):

import javax.script.*;
public class EvalScript {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        // create a script engine manager
        ScriptEngineManager factory = new ScriptEngineManager();
        // create a JavaScript engine
        ScriptEngine engine = factory.getEngineByName("JavaScript");
        // evaluate JavaScript code from String
        engine.eval("print('Hello, World')");
    }
}

The interface to instantiate a scripting engine and evaluate a script is language-agnostic; "JavaScript" could be changed to "Python" to evaluate in Python (via Jython) rather than JavaScript (via Rhino).