A Scripting over JVM drama...

Mike Spille is still insisting on Groovy...

Personally, when they kept insisting on using so many optional syntax elements and when I noticed the little care paid to error handling and other robustness related features, I decided to quit on the idea of ever adopting Groovy.

I used scripting in my Java applications even before was hype. I tried Rhino Javascript, BeanShell and even took a look at Jython. I did not find, however, anything better to me than Pnuts.

Pnuts is very FAST, it can be either compiled directly to memory or to disk, it is very customizable, etc., etc.... and even having a bit of those optional syntax features that I dislike, it is not so bad that I can not tolerate it. I really do not understand why it is not more widly used.

OTOH, I feel less and less the need to use scripting. With Eclipse around, automatic webapp reloading on Tomcat, a little class loading trick on larger apps / frameworks (just like Tomcat does it), what is really the advantage of scripting on the JVM?

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