BeanShell – Lightweight Scripting for Java
BeanShell is a cool thing I found a little while back; it’s a scripting environment for java. At first I didn’t see the point, but when you bring up the BeanShell Desktop that’s included in the download, it gives you a console where you can test out java stuff. It even lets you use Swing, or any other java library I suppose. I use it mostly for testing out regular expressions, or for doing quick sanity checks to make sure my code is going to do what I expect it to do. Check it out; I’m sure you can find something to use it for.