net, Jython slighted, Whats all the Rave?
At the general session on Wednesday morning more was talked about the new developer portal http://www.java.net. The site is edited by Tim O’Reilly and the chief web dog is James. Tim describes himself as the Colonel Sanders of the site; he jokes that it’s really a group of O’Reilly Associates editors that will be editing the site. Rumour has it that java.net is a private-labeled version of SourceForge with a bunch of new bells and whistles added (blogs, wikis, forums.) So it is open for anyone to host a public project, open-source projects included. There seems to be lack of support for Jython at Sun. To thier credit Sun did mention Jython when talking about JSR-223 (Java support for Scripting Languages) and scheduled a birds-of-a-feather session. However, Jython was slighted too: The BOF would start at 11:20 pm, and Tim O’Reilly messed up and said “Jython is a good combination of Perl and Java.” He meant to say Python and Java. Sun seems to be missing-the-boat on what Jython really br
