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Mobile Game Applications Need Scripting Too
An anonymous reader writes "Mobile game developer Tom Park believes that scripting for wireless devices is important for proficiency sake. And with the need to scale mobile applications across so many different platforms, proficiency is everything.
Read his thoughts on scripting, as well as his ideas on wireless application development's future."
It is interesting that this article appears this morning, because I have just now posted the first beta of BeanShell version 2.0.
For those of you who don't know: BeanShell is a light weight, LGPL, pure Java Java source interpreter with a minimal footprint of less than 150K (and getting smaller). In addition to interpreting standard Java code, BeanShell extends Java into the scripting domain in a natural way by allowing loose types, method closures, commands, and other obvious scripting language features. And because BeanShell runs in the same VM with your app, you can freely pass "live" objects into scripts and back.
BeanShell is already widely distributed with Emacs, Weblogic app server, Sun's NetBeans/Forte, and many other commercial apps and non-commercial apps.
With version 2.0 BeanShell adds (bugs withstanding) full Java compatibility and the ability to script true Java classes. Scripted classes appear to outside Java code and by introspection as ordinary classes but are fully dynamic and may include arbitrary scripts in their bodies, methods and constructors.
Please check out www.beanshell.org for more and check back for updates on 2.0 in the near future.
Thanks,
Pat Niemeyer
Author of Learning Java, O'Reilly & Associates and the BeanShell Java scripting language.
BeanShell is a general Java scripting and extension language. It just happens to be small enough to be useful in some embedded applications.
If it's too slow for a particular application then just compile that code. That's the beauty of a Java *compatible* scripting language... see?
Pat Niemeyer