What about Groovy?

[Venkatesh Prasad Ranganath]

I am involved in a project in which I plan to provide access to the guts
of an Eclipse plugin via Groovy.  This is similar to in-process shell
provided by EclipseShell.  However, as there were no Groovy shells
provided by EclipseShell, I was planning on porting the Beanshell to
operate with Groovy.  Is anybody in EclipseShell project working on such
a plugin?  If not, would the project welcome such a contribution?

[tomstrummer]

I second that - Eclipse Shell looks awesome but my primary JVM scripting language is Groovy.  I don't suspect it would be hard to add as I believe Groovy is already compatible with BSH and the Java scripting API. 

I'm also working on an enhancement to the Groovy-Eclipse plugin right now which will open a Groovy Console with the current project's classpath but it's probably much simpler compared to what this does.

Thanks!
-Tom

[Werner Schuster]

Tom,

support for a new language/runtime is very simple to do, I also have documentation for it:
http://eclipse-shell.sourceforge.net/devs/index.html

I just don't have the time to add further languages myself, but since every language support is a plugin (that contributes to EclipseShell), you can write a plugin that supports Groovy.