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

Grails 1.0 has been released - with support for GORM, REST services and so on
Speaking of GORM (Grails Object-Relational Mapping), you can find a good article on the technology here
JRuby 1.1 RC2 has been released and as Charles says

If you haven’t looked at JRuby, now’s the time to do so.

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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.

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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
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It’s been an interesting period for “dynamic languages on JVM” technologies. Here’s a couple of news and interesting articles:
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- June 12, 2007
  JRuby 1.0 released
  
  JRuby 1.0 has been released. Here are some notes made by Charles Nutter about futur ...

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