We know that Tiger (Java 5.0) has given shelter in its JVM , to some of the scripting languages that are well known to us.I was googling to find a list of those scripting languages, and i found it in a wiki page. Here is the list of the scripting languages.

1. Groovy Groovy is an object oriented programming language for the Java platform. Since it resembles other scripting languages like Python ,Ruby, Perl, it is categgorised under scripting languages. Refer the JSR 241 for more information.
2. Javascript Javascript is a scripting language implementing the ECMAScript standards
3. Jython Jython is Python written Java
4. Jelly Jelly is a Java based scripting languages to process XML
5. BeanShell BeanShell is yet another scripting language written Java
6. JRuby JRuby is Ruby written in Java
7. Tcl/Java Tcl/Java is a bridge between Tcl and Java , that means we can invole Java from Tcl and vice versa
8. Sleep Sleep stands for Simple Language for Environment Extensions Purposes. …another scripting language written in Java (i dont know how many times i have to write it:))
9. Bean Scripting Framework Bean Scripting Framework provides a set of Java classes which provides scripting language support within Java applications … other scripting languages written in and for Java Pnuts JudoScript and many more to come …