Wow! So much interesting stuff going on… One of Sun’s focuses for this week is ‘ease of development’. They think that the biggest market for developers in the coming years will be the so-called ‘corporate developer’. Along those lines, Tim Oreilly got up this morning and talked a bit about JSR 223: Scripting Pages in JavaTM Web Applications , which will enable developers who use scripting languages like Perl, PHP, and Python to use Java classes.
I don’t have any net access in the hotel, so I’ll have to brain dump in a couple days…
You can already use Java classes from Python – see http://www.jython.org/, and see http://www.jpublish.org/ for a nice example of it put to use.