http://blog.james-carr.org/2007/11/15/jruby-groovy-and-other-dynamic-languages-on-the-jvm/ Rants and Musings of an Agile Developer Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:23:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://blog.james-carr.org/2007/11/15/jruby-groovy-and-other-dynamic-languages-on-the-jvm/#comment-38613 Peter Lawrey Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:52:23 +0000 http://blog.james-carr.org/2007/11/15/jruby-groovy-and-other-dynamic-languages-on-the-jvm/#comment-38613 You should give BeanShell a try. This allows you to run Java dynamically and supports closures. While this behaviour is cool, I have yet to find a compelling reason to use it at work, except for perhaps unit tests. We have used Jameleon which is a scripting language which suited to unit tests. If you find something which makes unit tests fun, let me know! ;) You should give BeanShell a try. This allows you to run Java dynamically and supports closures.
While this behaviour is cool, I have yet to find a compelling reason to use it at work, except for perhaps unit tests. We have used Jameleon which is a scripting language which suited to unit tests.
If you find something which makes unit tests fun, let me know!

]]> http://blog.james-carr.org/2007/11/15/jruby-groovy-and-other-dynamic-languages-on-the-jvm/#comment-38601 James Carr Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:01:04 +0000 http://blog.james-carr.org/2007/11/15/jruby-groovy-and-other-dynamic-languages-on-the-jvm/#comment-38601 Yep.. Grails has been on my list of things to try out... maybe now I have a really good reason to! ;) Yep.. Grails has been on my list of things to try out… maybe now I have a really good reason to!

]]> http://blog.james-carr.org/2007/11/15/jruby-groovy-and-other-dynamic-languages-on-the-jvm/#comment-38593 Andres Almiray Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:01:15 +0000 http://blog.james-carr.org/2007/11/15/jruby-groovy-and-other-dynamic-languages-on-the-jvm/#comment-38593 Oh but we do have a "Spring on Rails" sort of thing, its called Grails (http://grails.org). Grails leverages Spring (+SpringMVC)/Hibernate/SiteMesh/Quartz among others to bring back the fun into webapp development and increase your productivity. Oh but we do have a “Spring on Rails” sort of thing, its called Grails (http://grails.org). Grails leverages Spring (+SpringMVC)/Hibernate/SiteMesh/Quartz among others to bring back the fun into webapp development and increase your productivity.

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