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 Editor's Daily BlogBetween the WorldsPosted by invalidname on September 08, 2006 at 11:05 AM | Comments (0)Java? Ruby? Both? If you read Beyond Java, it was hard not to notice author Bruce Tate's clear affection for Ruby, which he clearly preferred not only to modern-day Java, but also to most of the dynamic languages out there. But it's easy to forget that he praised a lot of Java's accomplishments, such as how the JVM solves compatibility and security problems across operating systems. In fact, he predicted the Next Big Thing would have to run on the JVM, and because of that, he said to keep an eye on JRuby, particularly on when it would be able to run Ruby on Rails. He wasn't the only one tracking JRuby, apparently. Topping off the Java Today section is news that the two core JRuby developers, Charles Oliver Nutter and Thomas Enebo, will soon join Sun to work on JRuby full-time. As Nutter says in his blog, JRuby Developers Join Sun, "the primary goal is to give JRuby the attention it really needs. The potential for Ruby on the JVM has not escaped notice at Sun, and so we'll be focusing on making JRuby as complete, performant, and solid as possible." David Herron also comments on the move in his blog Good news, JRuby developers coming to Sun. The JavaDesktop Community's latest featured applet is actually 3 applet games that have been created with the new JGame framework for 2D games. According to the release 0.8 announcement: "JGame is a small high-level 2D game engine for producing games on a variety of platforms. It does a lot of the stuff you need for a game automatically, and classic type arcade games can be developed with a minimum of effort. It is based on sprites with automatic collision detection, and a tile-based background with easy sprite-tile interaction facilities. JGame games can easily be run as stand-alone applications or as applets, and can be scaled to any resolution." The 30 Minute Flex Test Drive gives Java developers a way to explore Flex and the various ways it integrates with Java EE, with a minimal time commitment: you just deploy a war file in Tomcat (or another app server), and then go through 10 concise and targeted samples. The samples focus on integrating Flex with Java back-ends (remote method and web services invocation, server push, real-time collaboration, pub/sub messaging, JMS integration, and persistence). Our latest Feature Article, is S. W. Eran Chinthaka's look at Axis2: The Next Generation of Apache Web Services. Apache's Axis2 employs profound lessons learned from its popular predecessor, offering the developer vastly improved XML parsing along with an extensible core, pluggable data binding, and more. In this article, he offers an overview of what's new in Axis2, the "next generation" of this popular Web services SOAP stack. Closures are still on the top of many of our bloggers' minds. In today's Weblogs. Kirill Grouchnikov brings in some JavaScript trickery so you can Voice you concerns about closures with this FUD generator: "Concerned about closures but having trouble formulating your thoughts? This easy-to-use FUD generator will do the job for you. It's as simple as few clicks and you're ready to spread the FUD..." Meanwhile, in Closure and collection integration, Rémi Forax has "some insights about how closure will be integreated with Java collection framework." Finally, in Compatibility Assertion Tagging Within Specifications, Kyle Grucci says: "One of the most time consuming aspects of creating Technology Compatibility Kits (TCKs) for the various JSRs which come out of the Java Community Process is the creation and maintenance of assertion lists. This entry explores the idea of tagging assertions within a written Java specification." The latest java.net Poll asks "What do you think of the proposed Java Kernel project?" Cast your vote on the front page, then check out the results page for results and discussion.
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