http://www.scriptinginjava.net Languages, Frameworks, and Patterns Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:08:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jython was one of the first successful dynamic language projects on the JVM. The project faded in the later years because of the lack of development and allowed other projects (languages) to take all the headlines. Now Sun employed Frank Wierzbicki, a lead Jython developer, so it seems that after ... http://www.scriptinginjava.net/community/jython-revived.html 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 ... http://www.scriptinginjava.net/community/33.html 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 these thoughts (with links to original posts here) http://www.scriptinginjava.net/community/dealing-with-large-code-bases.html 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 Groovy version are Java 5 features, such as: Annotations Enums Static Imports Generics but there are a lot more new features. The official release ... http://www.scriptinginjava.net/community/groovy-15-released.html Description Simple Groovy builder that uses StAX API to generate XML/JSON documents Download You can download the builder here Source Source code is currently available at http://code.google.com/p/dynawork/source. Example Here are a few examples taken from test cases Creating XML using Woodstox WstxOutputFactory factory = new WstxOutputFactory() StringWriter writer = new StringWriter() StaxBuilder builder = new StaxBuilder( factory.createXMLStreamWriter(writer) ) builder.root1(a:5, b:7) ... http://www.scriptinginjava.net/resources/groovy-staxbuilder.html 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 ... http://www.scriptinginjava.net/news/code-samples-chapter-10.html Code samples for Chapter 7 demonstrating Practical scripting in Java are available for download. Enjoy. http://www.scriptinginjava.net/news/code-samples-chapter-7.html 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 http://www.scriptinginjava.net/news/ijtc-session.html OpenJDK community has a new project, Multi-Language VM (or just mlvm). It is announced by John Rose, from Sun, on the announcement list. The focus of the project will be to prototype JVM features beneficial for dynamic languages and remove "pain points" that current dynamic language developers have with standard ... http://www.scriptinginjava.net/community/multi-language-vm.html Code samples for Chapter 6 demonstrating Bean Scripting Framework are available for download. Enjoy. http://www.scriptinginjava.net/news/code-samples-chapter-6.html