First release candidate of the 3.0 line. The JAR targets Java 8 and is tested on Java 8 through 25. Since beta 1, implicit conversions between unrelated types (truthiness, strings parsed as numbers, ...

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 3.0.0RC1, the first release candidate of 3.0, is available from GitHub releases. Support for legacy releases reached end-of-life; only issues and pull requests against main will be accepted.

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 ...

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 ...

Recent blogs calling Groovy the "sleeping giant" overlook a nimble alternative. With its uncluttered design, mature code base, small size, well defined semantics, dynamic language features, and JSR ...

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 ...

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