MS03-008: Windows Script Engine vulnerability On March 19, 2003, Microsoft warned of a flaw in the Windows Script Engine, which executes JScript and Visual Basic scripts on a Windows computer.

The Web scripting capability of Java Specification Request (JSR) 223, Scripting for the Java Platform, specifies what a script engine must implement so that code written in the script language can ...

This article, an excerpt from Chapter 9, gets you started with the Java Scripting API. You’ll learn how to obtain a script engine (a software component that evaluates scripts), how to get the ...

This is typically used to initialize the script engine environment viz. pre-populate the engine with utility functions and variables that other scripts rely on.