Could someone familar with parrot take a look at the Java Scripting API (aka JSR223) and let us know how much work would be involved in adding support for it to parrot?
See https://scripting.dev.java.net/ and http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/scripting/index.html Something to watch out for is that many of the examples assume the scripting language is itself implemented in Java. That's true of most of the scripting engines listed on https://scripting.dev.java.net but it's not essential. The most relevant example for parrot is probably http://jepp.sourceforge.net/ - "Jepp embeds CPython in Java" The detailed JSR223 specs, for users and implementors, can be found here: http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr223/index.html It would be an understatement for me to say I think integration with Java could be very beneficial for parrot. Think JDBC for a start. Tim.
