Hi Dalibor, On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 00:09 +0200, Dalibor Topic wrote: > > I would like to find a way to do this cleaner though. But the current > > code relies on being on the bootclasspath which makes things a little > > tricky. > > > Landon suggested a while ago exploring https://scripting.dev.java.net/ , > which includes a Rhino > binding.
Yes, I think outsourcing the actual scripting engines and merging them with a project like that would be a cool idea for jdk7. That way you completely get around some of them living in rt.jar on the bootclasspath. And users/distros would be free to add and upgrade them separately. Cheers, Mark