Java APIs, Extensions and Libraries: With JavaFX, JDBC, jmod, jlink, Networking, and the Process API

© Kishori Sharan 2018

Kishori SharanJava APIs, Extensions and Librarieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3546-1_9

9. Scripting in Java

Kishori Sharan¹ 

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Montgomery, Alabama, USA

 

In this chapter, you will learn:

• What scripting in Java is

• How to execute scripts from Java and how to pass parameters to scripts

• How the ScriptContext is used in executing scripts

• How to use the Java programming language in scripts

• How to implement a script engine

• How to use the jrunscript and jjs command-line tools to execute scripts

All example programs in this chapter are members of a jdojo.script module, as declared in Listing 9-1, unless specified otherwise.

// module-info.java

module jdojo.script {

    requires java.scripting;

    exports com.jdojo.script;

}

Listing 9-1.