RE: Sun begins to fund JVM scripting languages

I think Sun might not want to support a very promising competitor. In my
opinion, BeanShell and the such are just 'add-ons' on top of Java API.
Groovy is pretty much language in its own rights with its own SDK. Isn't
Groovy the only language that has its own compiler? (source code to
bytecode, without intermediate Java files)

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From: Tom Nichols [mailto:tmnichols@...]
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:36 PM
To: user@...
Subject: Re: [groovy-user] Sun begins to fund JVM scripting languages

Not to bash JRuby, but has Sun shown any 'official' support to the
Groovy project?  I would have thought Groovy has a lot more potential in
terms of interoperability, since it reuses Java standsrds such as beans
and servlets.  I've been wondering for a while (for real, no flamewar
intended) what does (J)Ruby have that Groovy doesn't?

On a similar note, I keep hearing a lot of different things about
Sun/Java6 supporting different scripting languages as the 'standard.'
Groovy has a JSR, J6SE will ship with Rhino (which is understandable, I
guess, since it's more lightweight than Groovy).  I heard something
about a PHP reference implementation on the Java scripting API, and then
BeanShell has a JSR as well.

Can someone straighten me out here?

Thanks.
-Tom


On 9/7/06, John Wilson <tug@...> wrote:
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