Date: Mar. 16, 2001
Link: http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/02/01/simkin.html
Source Author or Organization: Simon Whiteside, O'Reilly Network, ONJava.com

This article describes using Simkin to store behaviors in XML files for execution by Java applications. Simkin is an interpreted scripting language that can be embedded in data files, including within PCDATA sections of XML documents. The language was designed for ease of use by non-programmers, with a syntax the author feels is simpler and more readable than Javascript syntax.

Tha author uses sample code to demonstrate embedding statements, expressions and variables within XML and having them evaluated by the Simkin Interpreter Java class. One commercial application of Simpkin was providing the "Manuscript" plug-in for the Sibelius music notation program.

Simkin for Java is distributed under a GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) license.