RE: [cinjug-users] Sharpening the Saw - Groovy

["Voegele, Jason" <Jason.Voegele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

JRuby is dual licensed under the GPL and the LGPL, so you can choose which license is more appropriate for your circumstances.  In fact, I'm the one who initiated the license change. :-)

That said, Groovy is still worth looking at and seems to have gained a lot of momentum of late.

Jason Voegele

-----Original Message-----
From:   Michael Schneider [mailto:michaelschneider@xxxxxxxx]
Sent:   Tue 7/27/2004 9:07 AM
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Subject:        [cinjug-users] Sharpening the Saw - Groovy

Hello All,

Java is a great static language, there are times when a dynamic language is a better tool for the task at hand.  An even better solution is to be able to leverage java and a dynamic language in the same application.

I have been a fan of Python/Jython, but Jython support can lag.

Ruby/JRuby is another good option (Some would say better then python), but last I herd  (I could be wrong here, Jim?) JRuby is GNU licensed, so no go for commercial apps.

There is a new JSR supported scripting language called Groovy, It seems to takegood constructs from Python, Ruby, Smalltalk ...

It is a dynamic langauge that lives on the JVM and can be embedded in your Java Application.

 

Here is the home page for Groovy:

http://groovy.codehaus.org/

Here is the wikki page:

http://wiki.codehaus.org/groovy/FrontPage

 

Have fun,

Mike

 
 
PS.  Special thanks to Chris V for pointing me to groovy :-)