Re: [Beanshell-users] The sad state of Java scripting

On Apr 29, 2007, at 1:04 AM, fschmidt wrote:

> I have been using BeanShell for years and I kept hoping that the  
> author
> would show some enthusiasm and start fixing bugs.  This hasn't  
> happened.
> BeanShell is an unsupported product with close to 200 outstanding  
> bugs.
> When users ask about BeanShell's status, they are ignored.
>
> http://www.nabble.com/Question-regarding-Beanshell%27s-status- 
> tf3372306.html
>
> BeanShell should not be depended on in a serious application.

While it is true that the BeanShell project has not been moving  
forward very quickly for the past few years that does not mean that  
it is not stable and continuing to attract new users.

I understand the frustration and I apologize for not responding to  
the list more frequently.  The problem with a language project like  
this is that it places a very high demand for time on a very few  
people and things have to come together for there to be a lot of  
visible progress.

Here are some things that have happened in the past few months:

1) We added a new member to the JSR-274 expert group: Tom Copeland,  
who recently wrote a book on JavaCC.

2) Oracle negotiated a non-LGPL license for BeanShell for use in  
their products.

3) Dan Leuck and I have resumed planning for a BeanShell book.

4) I have continued to make plans for how we're going to approach  
BeanShell 3.0.  I want the next release to be a significant  
refactoring that rebases BeanShell on a newer Java version and makes  
it much more accessible and easier to work on for everyone.

I have not wanted to be promising too much on the list until we had  
some real code to show... that is one of the reasons I've been  
quiet.  But we will do a better job of keeping everyone up to date in  
the future.


Pat Niemeyer








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