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== Features ==
While BeanShell allows its users to define [[Subroutine|functions]] that can be called from within a script, its underpinning philosophy has been to not pollute its syntax with too many extensions and "[[syntactic sugar]]", thereby ensuring that code written for a Java [[compiler]] can usually be executed [[interpreter (computing)|interpretively]] by BeanShell without any changes and, almost just as much, vice versa. This makes BeanShell a popular [[software testing|testing]] and [[debugging]] tool for the [[Java virtual machine]] (JVM) platform.

BeanShell supports scripted objects as simple method [[Closure (computer programming)|closures]] like those in [[Perl]] and [[JavaScript]].

BeanShell is an [[Open-source model|open source]] project and has been incorporated into many applications, such as [[Apache OpenOffice]], [[Apache Ant]], [[Oracle WebLogic Server|WebLogic Server]] Application Server, [[Apache JMeter]], [[jEdit]], [[ImageJ]], [[JUMP GIS]], [[Apache Taverna]], and many others. BeanShell provides an easy to integrate [[application programming interface]] (API). It can also be run in command-line mode or within its own graphical environment.