Pat Niemeyer: ...But I'm going to let you in on a little secret. There are really two APIs buried in this specification and one of them is actually quite interesting. Java is about to get a standardized API for working with scripting languages and it's not just about web applications any more...
...(The politics of Groovy continue to amaze me.)...
The politics of the JCP start to get to me now. First the JSR 243 public review balloting, now JSR 223 bias toward groovy. What's next? Vote down JSR requests from the Eclipse foundation?