Scriptic is a language extension that simplifies Java programming. Scriptic includes the following: Simple and concise constructs for expressing choice, parallelism, breaking, and iterations. Simply write an ampersand instead of a semicolon: you will get parallelism instead of a sequence, etc. Easy access to multi-threading: Java code between {* and *} simply runs in its own thread A refinement construct (script) with a powerful parameter mechanism Communication between parallel processes using shared scripts An event-driven execution mechanism that ideally suits user interfaces, simulations, and others Scriptic has a strong theoretical background in Process Algebra. This foundation means that the language constructs for parallelism are well-defined.