RHQ 4.5.0 (which we released today) contains a great deal of scripting enhancements that I think are worth talking about in more detail. In my eyes, the changes make the scripting in RHQ ready for serious use.
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In the past few weeks I was quite busy refactoring RHQ’s CLI and scripting integration. Funnily enough it all started because we wanted to add the support for CommonJS modules to our javascript interface. During the course of the refactoring, I found out that I’m actually heading in the direction of completely separating the "language" support from the rest of the RHQ, which then only speaks to it through the Java’s standard scripting APIs which are language independent.