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javax.script
interface Compilable


public interface Compilable

The optional interface implemented by ScriptEngines whose methods compile scripts to a form that can be executed repeatedly without recompilation.


Method Summary
 CompiledScript
compile(Reader script)

          Compiles the script (source read from Reader) for later execution.
 CompiledScript
compile(String script)

          Compiles the script (source represented as a String) for later execution.
 

Method Detail

compile

public CompiledScript compile(Reader script)
                       throws ScriptException
Compiles the script (source read from Reader) for later execution. Functionality is identical to compile(String) other than the way in which the source is passed.

Parameters:
script - The reader from which the script source is obtained.
Returns:
An implementation of CompiledScript to be executed later using one of its eval methods of CompiledScript.
Throws:
ScriptException - if compilation fails.

compile

public CompiledScript compile(String script)
                       throws ScriptException
Compiles the script (source represented as a String) for later execution.

Parameters:
script - The source of the script, represented as a String.
Returns:
An subclass of CompiledScript to be executed later using one of the eval methods of CompiledScript.
Throws:
ScriptException - if compilation fails.


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