Hello mates. I'm part of a big project's developer team. We are writting an application in Java and we are planning to add scripting functionality to it. What we exactly are planning is to give a kind of tool that would allow our users to write their own scripts to perform their special operations. Something like VBA does in several comercial applications. But, as we are GPL we have to use a close to GPL licensed-like language.
My teammates and I were talking about to use one of Python, Ruby or Groovy. But, we haven't decided which to use. What seems to be easier is to use Python, you know.. because of the Jython thing. But, it is probably a mistake to take Jython without a extensive analysis of the all possibilities. From my point of view, the best choice will be those that allow the average user getting results as fast as possible rather than the power of the language itself. At the end, what we will write is a gateway to access to our application's Java API through the scripts written by our users. In this sense, I'd like to ask if someone knows if any of these languages have a Java implementation that supports code auto-complete and class navigation or any kind of functionality that would ease and speed up the user's learning curve and productivity. In other words, is it possible to have a small and lightly intelligent workbench window (a mini-Eclipse for example) for our future "macro editor" within our application? I promise that if get some info I'll publish it here as soon I have it. Thanks for your time! Jaume -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
