From: Roger M. <ma...@ro...> - 2008-05-26 04:25:00
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lan Kennedy wrote: >Packaging, i.e. in war files or webstart, is a different issue; if >you're having difficulties with any of these areas, ask specific >questions to the list. I think you're missing the central thesis here Alan, which is (apologies for the reiteration) that Java bytecode is what most potential Jython developers want, not a Python interpreter with access to Java methods that relies on a JVM Runtime/exec instead of Python interpreter.. This is not a different issue. This is _the_ issue. This is the reason Jruby has become the Java scripting language of choice while Jython has languished. A JVM Python source interpreter or even bytecode interpreter is cool to be sure, and useful in a limited number of circumstances, but it really doesn't offer significant benefits over standard Python. Jython generated pure Java bytecode, on the other hand, is a killer app that has been promised but not delivered for close to a half decade now, as the 3 year old Netbeans announcement and your 4 year old Tim Bray URL aptly illustrate. Roger Marquis |