For some reason, I’m often asked this question: is scripting programming or just systems administration? Oddly enough, we briefly addressed this within the firstPowerShell Unleashed book. But ...

Although scripting languages are hardly new, today’s powerful computers make them viable platforms, says Joshua McAdams, a representative for the Perl Foundation.

Discover the Java Scripting API and use it to develop a dynamic, Swing-based weather application, in this excerpt from Jeff Friesen's 'Beginning Java SE 6 Platform.' ...