A praise for JSR223 with Jython (highly recommended)

[steve1]

@ben_jones12

Just wondering if it is all that sensible to start migrating all my rules over to Jython, when it isn’t currently supported in OH v2.0.

A JSR223 extension is being developed for OH2…

JSR223 / using other scripting languages for rules in OH2

I was wondering about the status of using scripting languages other than Xtend for writing rules in OH2. The JSR223 wiki page states Currently this scriptengine cannot be used in OpenHAB2. A new smarthome compatible functionality is in development. Scripts from this engine can be used in the new addon without significant changes. A compatibility layer will be provided. I noticed from some PRs on the ESH repo and some forum posts that it seems OH2 has an entirely new rule engine which may sup…