Best way to execute AppleScript from Java

Question

I have a couple of AppleScripts that i want to run from Java. I have several options including:

Running the AppleScript as a string using the AppleScript ScriptEngine (using ((new ScriptEngineManager()).getEngineByName("AppleScript")).eval(scriptString)))

Saving the AppleScript as an Application and running the app from Java (using Desktop.getDesktop().open("name.app"))

Those two seemed the best options to me and I was wondering

Is there a better way?

If !(1.) Which of these two ways is the best? (Speedwise)

If !(1.) Are there ways to improve my methods?

Answer 1

Not sure I would go with 2, that seems like a very big hammer.

The other old style solution was to exec 'osascript' command.

As far as I know using the script engine support is the preferred method.

Answer 2

Your first option sounds right to me, but if for some reason you want to run it as an external script, you could consider running an osascript the same way you would run a shell script.