Today, scriptlets are simply an innovative technology and no tools available offer adequate support for them. This is quite reasonable, given the youth of scriptlets. However, the lack of dedicated authoring tools is a shortcoming that should disappear very shortly. But what kind of tools do you need to use them easily right now? And what kind of tools might you need in the future? The latter question might also be rephrased this way: what are the future development guidelines for scriptlets? And how will they evolve?
Let's start by seeing what you need to work with scriptlets today.