Nicobar: Dynamic Scripting Library for Java

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Seems like just enough amount of rope to hang yourself.

In addition to cumbersome setup you're goind go have wild amount of fun with dependency graph between scripts. Development will be fun as well.

I understand such system might have some specific uses but I expect an app made out of interdependent interchangeable scripts to be 10x times harder to develop than a monolithic one.

I used to work on a system that had Drools-based coupon and promotions. Drools was like this at its core.

Those were some fun stacktraces. They look like compiled JSP output, with about as much usefulness unless you're on the server digging around in the template's generated java code.

This system once gave products away for nearly nothing. Another it repeatedly stack overflowed trying to recurse down a rule. This was unfortunately easy to do with this system.

The example they show is a pretty trivial one, but maybe it's only used in trivial cases where the effects would be minimal.

I'll still follow the development of this project to see if there's some improvement over my (admittedly sour) experience.

also: is groovy normally written in the 'fluent' style?

wish this existed a long time ago!

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