Lightweight, fast, Java-centric Lua interpreter written for JME and JSE, with string, table, package, math, io, os, debug, coroutine & luajava libraries, JSR-223 bindings, all metatags, weak tables and unique direct lua-to-java-bytecode compiling.

Features

  • Lua interpreter written in Java
  • Support for 5.2 language spec, libraries
  • Runs in JSE, JME or via JSR-223 pluggable scripting
  • Fast execution - faster than C for some benchmarks
  • Direct lua to Java bytecode compiling
  • Yield-from-anywhere throughtout
  • luajava API support
  • Debug support including mixed Java/lua debugging

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MIT License

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User Reviews

  • Works well so far in Java project.
  • Luaj is a pleasure to use. I particularly appreciate Luaj still working on older JDKs because there's still some environments using older JDKs.
  • great library. handles all the lua code in en.wikipedia.org and other WMF wikis. is also much faster than the standard lua binary. documentation makes it easy to use and customize.
  • very easy to use and incredibly fast.
  • It's great, but it doesn't support newproxy()... (look up Lua hidden features)
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Java ME

Intended Audience

Developers

Programming Language

Java

Related Categories

Java Interpreters

Registered

2007-06-05