[GROOVY-10023] Remove BSF from Groovy 4

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0-alpha-3
• Labels: breaking
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Paul King
• Created: 09/Apr/21 06:39
• Updated: 03/Feb/22 22:16
• Resolved: 10/Apr/21 22:16

Description

The version 2 of Bean Scripting Framework (BSF) AKA BeanShell hasn't had a release since 2005. We plan to drop the groovy-bsf module for Groovy 4. We asked on the dev and users lists:

https://lists.apache.org/thread/6xxhyq2hfqkyjkhyklj1tpm5bxd34r5l

We also did a twitter poll:

https://twitter.com/paulk_asert/status/1379672434131881985

We had 0% of users wanting to keep it - most folks wanting multiple language scripting seem to be using JSR-223.
You should be able to happily continue using a 3.x version of the module with Groovy 4.

There is also a version 3 of BSF planned but it appears to align with JSR-223 which Groovy already natively supports so it isn't clear whether any special module is needed for that version.