[FYI] janino

[Stefano Mazzocchi]

the more I work with python, the more I hate the fact that java is not 
easily scriptable (as much as I would love the contrary, java is orders 
of magnitude more solid than python in many aspects, in XML processing 
it feels like a toy), the more I look around for alternatives, so I came 
across this 'embedded runtime java compiler'

  http://www.janino.net/index.html
and it's apache licensed. Don't know, I thought I would just pass it along.
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Stefano.