BeanShell is an excellent Java interpreter with several extensions to the Java syntax that make it particularly interesting. The script can access real Java classes, execute their methods, load new ...

BeanShell is not as fast as the quickest of the interpreters, but the 2.0 release supports loading of ordinary Java source, which is a strong selling point. I tried loading and running several Java ...

Assessing the security of Java applications, and particularly client-server applications, can be a tedious process of modifying the code, compiling, deploying, testing and repeat. This becomes even ...

Richard Monson-Haefel posted a blog entry recently called "Groovy: The Sleeping Giant". In it, he says that "dynamic programming" is the wave of the future, and that Groovy has the most potential ...

The BeanShell provides a convenient means of inspecting and manipulating a Java application during execution. This allows the security tester to bypass security controls on the client and verify the ...