Tea is ahigh-levelscripting language for theJava environment. It combines features ofScheme,Tcl, andJava.^[1][2]

• Integrated support for all major programming paradigms.
  • Functional programming language.
  • Functions are first-class objects.
  • Scheme-like closures are intrinsic to the language.
  • Support for object-oriented programming.
• Modular libraries with autoloading on-demand facilities.
• Large base of core functions and classes.
  • String and list processing.
  • Regular expressions.
  • File and network I/O.
  • Database access.
  • XML processing.
• 100% pure Java.
  • The Tea interpreter is implemented in Java.
  • Tea runs anywhere with a Java 1.6JVM or higher.
  • Java reflection features allow the use of Java libraries directly from Tea code.
• Intended to be easily extended in Java. For example, Tea supports relational database access throughJDBC, regular expressions throughGNURegexp, and anXML parser through aSAX parser (XML4J for example).

Tea is a proprietary language. Its interpreter is subject to a non-free license. A project called "destea", which released as Language::Tea inCPAN, provides an alternative by generating Java code based on the Tea code.

TeaClipse^[3] is an open-source compiler that uses a JavaCC-generated parser to parse and then compile Tea source to the proprietary Tea bytecode.

• Tea Home Page
• "destea" code converter

• Scripting languages
• Programming languages
• High-level programming languages
• Programming languages created in 1997