Bug#587237: ITP: hashdot -- A script aware replacement to stock java launcher

[Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <rkrishnan@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Owner: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <rkrishnan@debian.org>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : hashdot
  Version         : 1.4.0
  Upstream Author : David Kellum <dek-oss@gravitext.com>
* URL or Web page : http://hashdot.sourceforge.net/
* License         : GPL v3 with linking exception
  Description     : A script aware replacement to stock java launcher

  Hashdot elevates Java-platform script interpreters to first class
  status on Unix-like operating systems. It provides a script aware
  replacement to the stock 'java' launcher, and thus avoids numerous
  issues in using the 'java' launcher to bootstrap a script
  interpreter. All relevant interpreter and JVM options (i.e: Java
  heap size) may be specified directly in a script header and/or via
  system profiles, without resorting to environment variables,
  command line arguments, and the additional wrapper shell scripts
  needed to maintain them.
  .
  Hashdot can support any Java-platform language. Sample profiles
  are provided for Jython, JRuby, Scala, Groovy, Rhino Javascript
  and Clojure.

  Ramakrishnan