Groovy JSR: A New Era for Java?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 16, 2004 @12:13PM from the coffee's-always-been-there dept.

fastdecade writes "Groovy, the open-source scripting language, has been submitted for a Java Specification Request (JSR). And not without strong support from venerable J2EE practitioner/author, Richard Monson-Haefel, who labels this "the beginning of a new era in the Java platform". Groovy can use Java objects easily and compiles to JVM byte code, but it is nonetheless a scripting language at heart and a great companion for the more heavyweight Java programming language. Most JSRs concern new APIs, and this is the first JSR for an alternative language. Imagine a common platform of standardised languages talking to each other ... this looms as a big threat to .Net and a rejuvenation of the Java platform."

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What platforms is Java NOT ported to? by Tumbleweed · 2004-03-16 14:39 · Score: 4, Funny

> What platforms is Java NOT ported to?

Atari 800. It's very frustrating.
Re:rejuvenation? by iradik · 2004-03-16 18:06 · Score: 2, Funny

yah, but it's so corporate, bleh.

it's about time cool programmers stepped up on the java scene.
Re:JCP naming thunk? by lmh2671772 · 2004-03-17 02:59 · Score: 2, Funny

Hopefully the name will get changed prior to getting this into the JSE platform.
I guess you could call it Javascript.