Tea is a high level scripting language for the Java environment. It combines features of Scheme, Tcl and Java. 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.