Another good reason for looking into
Groovy is because it’s going to become a standard.
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Sharpening the Saw - Groovy
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
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From: Michael Schneider
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[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 :-)