Among the most intriguing features of the first Java SE 6 release candidate are the capabilities the new scripting and compiling APIs deliver.
by Eric Bruno
November 28, 2006
ince I wrote a DevX article on the first beta release of Java Standard Edition (SE) version 6 in February of this year, two new early-access versions have been released. This article discusses the first Java SE 6 release candidate, a feature-complete, almost fully tested implementation of the newest version of desktop Java. While the article in February focused on many GUI features (and declared Java SE 6 a desktop winner), this one focuses on some other new features and improvements, namely scripting and the compiler API.
Java Supplants Scripting
In the early days of the enterprise Java standard (what was called J2EE and is now called Java EE), many Web site designers employed server-side scripting to implement functionality. Available tools and software made it easy to develop and deploy this type of business logic, but they had two huge drawbacks: poor performance and little debugging assistance. Server-side scripts, such as those implemented as JavaScript, are not compiled; they're interpreted as they execute. This leads to poor performance and little to no scalability.
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