JythonMonthly/Newsletters/August2008

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News

Jython and Django on Glassfish - Scripting Project

The Glassfish application server now has a scripting project to help integrate the server with scripting languages for the JVM. There is a section on the project website that is devoted to using Jython and Django on Glassfish. It is comprised of a couple of blogs written by Frank Wierzbicki on the topic a few months ago, and it also contains a bit of information regarding a future roadmap for the Jython and Django support. You can find more information on the Glassfish Scripting project website: https://glassfish-scripting.dev.java.net/discover/jython.html

More on Django and Jython - Leo Soto's Speaking at DjangoCon

Leo Soto, working on Django and Jython for Google Summer of Code has posted some information http://wiki.python.org/jython/DjangoOnJython on the Jython wiki regarding how to make Django work on Jython without any patches. Leo will be speaking at this year's DjangoCon, which is being held in Mountain View, CA on September 6 and 7. Congratulations Leo! For more on this topic, read Leo's blog which is posted below.

Nbpython Project Progressing Quickly

The [https://nbpython.dev.java.net nbpython project] is progressing at a swift pace and releasing new milestones each month. This project promises to add great support for Python and Jython to the Netbeans IDE. The milestone releases are being distributed in Netbeans module format (NBM), as source, and stand alone IDE. Please visit the project website to learn more.

Articles

[http://wiki.python.org/jython/JythonMonthly/Articles/August2008/1 *New* Jython Basics - Decorators]

Submitted By: Josh Juneau

A new era in Jython development has arrived. We Jython developers will soon be able to begin harnessing many of the powerful features of the current Python language distribution. Using the latest alpha release of Jython (2.5a+), we can take a look at these new features today. Python is a language whose popularity has grown tremendously over the past several years, partially due to the great features that have been added. One of the newer features are known as decorators, which may appear daunting at first due to their odd syntax. As many Jython developers are also Java gurus, the syntax may look strikingly similar to the JavaEE Annotation. However, the Jython decorator is significantly different yet equally as powerful.

[http://wiki.python.org/jython/JythonMonthly/Articles/August2008/1 Read More]

[http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/3748556 Jython Reborn - Chris McAvoy]

[http://www.techworld.com.au/article/255835/-z_programming_languages_python?pp=1 The A-Z of Programming Languages: Python]

Blogs