I need a JVM-based scripting language for my app and would like to see what else is out there besides Groovy, Ruby, and Python.
Google keeps pointing me to a dead page at http://scripting.dev.java.net/
This is not a official list, but you can start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages
Rhino (JavaScript) is implemented in the Oracle JDK/JRE by default.
With this code you can see what scripting languages are available in your JDK:
import java.util.*;
import javax.script.*;
public class A {
public static void main( String[] args ) {
ScriptEngineManager mgr = new ScriptEngineManager();
List<ScriptEngineFactory> factories = mgr.getEngineFactories();
for (ScriptEngineFactory factory : factories) {
System.out.println("ScriptEngineFactory Info");
String engName = factory.getEngineName();
String engVersion = factory.getEngineVersion();
String langName = factory.getLanguageName();
String langVersion = factory.getLanguageVersion();
System.out.printf("\tScript Engine: %s (%s)%n", engName, engVersion);
List<String> engNames = factory.getNames();
for(String name : engNames) {
System.out.printf("\tEngine Alias: %s%n", name);
}
System.out.printf("\tLanguage: %s (%s)%n", langName, langVersion);
}
}
}
This example was obtained here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/scripting-140262.html
You may want to try Lua too. Take a look here: how can I embed lua in java?