Search

Info

Scripting in Java:
 Languages, Frameworks, and Patterns
  by Dejan Bosanac
Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
Pub Date: August 31, 2007 (est.)
Print ISBN-10: 0-321-32193-6
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-321-32193-0
eText ISBN-10: 0-321-50933-1
eText ISBN-13: 978-0-321-50933-8
Pages: 432

JavaWorld published excerpt from Chapter 1. Another excerpt coming soon.

Code samples for Chapter 9 are available for download

News

• November 13, 2007

  Code samples for Chapter 10 demonstrating the Web Scripting Framework are available for download. Also, as this is the last chapter of the book you can download the archive containing code samples for all chapters from here. Now that I finally sorted out all these examples, it’s time to move on with new projects and resources related to the topic, so stay tuned.

• October 26, 2007

  Code samples for Chapter 7 demonstrating Practical scripting in Java are available for download. Enjoy.

• October 24, 2007

  I will be speaking on Scripting with balance at Irish Java Technology Conference in Dublin (IJTC) on November 9th, 2007. The full announcement could be found here

• October 12, 2007

  Code samples for Chapter 6 demonstrating Bean Scripting Framework are available for download. Enjoy.

• October 5, 2007

  Code samples for Chapter 5 demonstrating Groovy modules and advanced programming techniques are available for download. Enjoy.

• September 21, 2007

  java.net has published an article titled Scripting with Balance in Design and Performance

• September 18, 2007

  I will be speaking on Scripting in Java in Novi Sad on September 19th, 2007. The full announcement could be found here (in Serbian)

• September 5, 2007

  Code samples for Chapter 4 demonstrating Groovy syntax and basic features are available for download. Enjoy.

• August 25, 2007

  Code samples for Chapter 3 are available for download

• August 2, 2007

  JavaWorld published the second excerpt from Chapter 1.

Community

• March 6, 2008
  Jython revived
  

  Jython was one of the first successful dynamic language projects on the JVM. The project faded in the later years because of the lack o ...

• February 19, 2008
  News and links
  

  It’s been an interesting period for “dynamic languages on JVM” technologies. Here’s a couple of news and interesting articles:

  • ...
  • January 2, 2008
    Dealing with large code bases
    

    There’s an interesting discussion in community these days on issues of dealing with large code bases and how dynamic languages can help Java projects in that manner. I summarized some of thes ...

  • December 12, 2007
    Groovy 1.5 released
    

    Groovy 1.5 has been released. It’s practically 1.1 release, but due to volume of changes introduced by the release it has been re-branded. Some of the most important features of the new Groov ...

  • October 17, 2007
    Multi-Language VM
    

    OpenJDK community has a new project, Multi-Language VM (or just mlvm). It is announced by John Rose, from Sun, on the ...

  • September 28, 2007
    Groovy meta-programming
    

    Graeme Rocher explains new meta-programming API improvements added to Groovy 1.1.

    ...
  • September 26, 2007
    Groovy 1.1 beta 3
    

    Groovy 1.1 beta 3 has been released a few days ago, bringing emplacements like Java5 enums, new shortcut replacement for ternary operator, Groovy shell and Swing console emplacements and more. Full ...

  • August 24, 2007
    JRuby and Jython releases
    

    It seems like today is dynamic JVM languages release day. First, JRuby 1.0.1 version is released and ...

  • June 29, 2007
    Rhino on Rails
    

    Steve Yegge wrote a blog post about his work on porting the Rails framework to JavaScript (...

  • June 12, 2007
    JRuby 1.0 released
    

    JRuby 1.0 has been released. Here are some notes made by Charles Nutter about futur ...