[JDEV] Jabber Client feature question: scripting

[Patrick McCuller]

My question is: what scripting language would you want to use to customize a
Jabber client?


	I'm building a scripting engine into my Jabber client (based
on...JabberBeans). Scripts will be called on the firing of several event
types, such as: message about to be sent, message sent, message received,
and so on.  I've build a ScriptEngine interface and a subclassable
BasicScriptEngine. They have a fairly simple interface:

getLocalVariable()
setLocalVariable()
setScript()
getScript()
evaluate()

	The intention is for third parties to build their own script interpreter
adapter. I have adapters for Beanshell and JPython already.  My question is:
what scripting languages would you want to use to customize a Jabber client?
The easiest to support are ones with Java interpreters, because my client is
written in Java, but I'm pretty handy with JNI and can always build a
bridge.


Patrick