Open Source Interpreters

Tool Command Language (Tcl) is an interpreted language and very portable interpreter for that language. Tcl is embeddable and extensible, and has been widely used since its creation in 1988 by John Ousterhout. Bug reports to http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/ Follow code development at http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/

The home page for the Saxon XSLT 3.0, XQuery 3.1, and XPath 3.1 processor has moved to http://www.saxonica.com/. Information on this site is no longer kept up to date. Sourceforge was the home for open-source versions of the Saxon XSLT 3.0, XQuery 3.1, and XPath 3.1, processor from 1999 until 2022. From version 12.0 in January 2023, you need to visit the Saxonica site at http://www.saxonica.com/ for the latest information and releases.

Home of the Open Object Rexx Project. ooRexx is the open source version of IBM's Object REXX Interpreter. It is upwardly compatible with classic REXX and will execute classic REXX programs unchanged. The project is managed by the Rexx Language Association.

TinyScheme is a Scheme interpreter that can execute Scheme code but is also suitable for embedding in programs. The goal is to keep the interpreter small while providing as much compatability with Scheme standards as possible.

In this project we aim to develop scheme libraries for developing various web applications (especially servlets and xml-based web services). Our approach is to use jscheme (an open source implementation of scheme in Java) as the core language which allow

A server-side language that supports simple and efficient Python-based dynamic HTML generation, aka Python Server Pages. Those familiar with JSP, PHP, or ASP and like Python, should have a look at Spyce.

wxJavaScript is renamed in GLUEscript, so a next release will be available on http://gluescript.sf.net. In the meantime, if you find any problems on the latest release, you can still use this website.

Askari is a custom version of the Mozilla Rhino Javascript Engine optimized for use in standalone applications and servlets. It is easily extensible either with Java libraries (SWT is bundled) or by adding to the included JavaScript library framework.

EasyHTML is an easy-to-use scripting language that allows you to write websites using (X)HTML-, CSS- and portions of JavaSript- and PHP-Elements with one simple syntax. The Syntax can be held in many different (spoken) languages.

Joost is a Java implementation of the Streaming Transformation for XML (STX) language (see http://stx.sourceforge.net/)

JFolder is a web-based application development and management tool. It allows users to create applications through a web browser without writing any code. The current release includes an implementation of the Pet Store written without code.

Water: a fast, secure, dynamic OO language and database. Water is an all-purpose language (and meta-language) that runs Web applications in the browser or server-side. Water is compatible with .NET, Java, and C on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X system.

Biferno is a new generation object-oriented Web scripting language that allows developers the rapid implementation of dynamic Web applications and of sites that offer a high degree of user interactivity. Biferno is now at version 1.0.2

The project aims to extend the PHP scripting language to enable PHP developers to write bioinformatics applications more rapidly than if they had to start from scratch using \"vanilla php\".

C-smile OOL is a scripting language with C++-like grammar. It has compiler, VM running bytecodes and C++ extendible runtime. Intended to run in standlone and embedded mode.

New web scripting language. Old versions are still available, but a new version is being developped upon a more powerful structure. Wait and see

ClearLisp is a Common Lisp interpreter written in C# with a large library including all of .NET and an extensive object model. Supports IIS and XSP or Apache with mono. Includes sample code of a personal, file based wiki web application.

The Cocoon Adaption Kit is a NetKernel module which enables the use of Cocoon Components (Generators, Transformers, Serializer, Actions) from within the NetKernel XML Application Server.

A universal parsing tool and source code generator for generative programming. It extracts useful information by parsing (BNF parser generator) and generates source code by several techniques, by interpreting a scripting language for flexibility.

DataLoggin provides the raw data Database for the Dawn of Light Server Emulation Project. (www.dolserver.com)

The DIML Project is the result of 6 years investigation in the domain of Web productivity. It implements a full open source and powerful template language and precompilator, allowing portable "web screens" to be written in PHP and/or Perl environment

A XML pull-parse library for Java 1.2, designed for processing XML protocol messages in the most efficient way possible. Contains a complete HTTP client library.

Extensible Data Objects (EDO) is a Markup-style scripting language for accessing and manipulating data from different sources (predominantly SQL sources, but also capable of extending to DNS, etc...), through an extensible plugin framework.

Helium (He) is a lightweight and extremely useful templating engine based entirely on XML. He is 100% Java and 100% TDD (Test Driven Development).

HiLexed 2 is a dynamic hierarchical LL-parser system with integrated lexing. It features a powerful unlimited look-ahead, look-ahead compression*, dynamic rules and left-recursion*. * = Under development