“I went Web-spelunking and found a beta version of what promised
to be the ideal solution to my short programming excursion needs —
someday. Then, just a couple of weeks ago, I was notified by e-mail
that BeanShell 1.0 was available. I decided to take the tool for a
ride.”
“BeanShell is a small interpreter written in Java by Pat
Niemeyer. It executes standard Java statements and expressions in
addition to several scripting commands. The tool supports scripted
objects as simple method closures like those in Perl and
JavaScript. BeanShell is open source and free to use under the
terms of the GNU General Public License.“
“BeanShell comes with both GUI (Swing) and console mode
interpreters. The GUI interpreter provides command history recall,
command line editing, cut and paste, support for multiple sessions,
and a simple editor for scripts.”