I have been meaning to lay out an argument since the recent Sun analyst conference, which we covered pretty extensively here, here, and um, here. The basic argument is that Sun would do well to build a new team tasked with…

I’ve been a long time listener of The Gillmor Gang (since the IT Conversation days). It was always exciting to hear my friends at RedMonk mentioned, and now it’s even more exciting to hear my company, RedMonk, mentioned. In the…

murphee: not sure if i’m actually wrong here - the page does say “in progress,” and JSR 270 states the following above the scripting for the java platform link: ‘The following JSRs are being considered for inclusion as components of the Mustang Umbrella JSR.’

i wouldn’t be surprised to see it be included, but the fact of the matter is that the JSR’s been in flight for a long, long time and is not in common use today.

I have recently given a series of lectures on our taught MSc Communications Software course on “The Rebel Platforms”, a term used by Richard Monson-Haefel, an analyst with the Burton Group, in that group’s regular conference (c.f. the IT Conversaations…

Java 6 will also come with a default scripting environment for Ecmascript (I think it’s a version of Rhino, as Java based Ecmascript implementation). Other JVM based language implementations are already working on JSR223 adapters (Beanshell, for example).

If you’re still not convinced, check out
a current pre-release version of a Mustang build which already ships with this:
http://mustang.dev.java.net/