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The Definitive Guide to Jython

This just in: The Definitive Guide to Jython: Python for the Java Platform is finally available! Jython is an open source implementatio…

Started by Michael Levin

0 Aug 19, 2009

Programming in Scala Book is out!

You may get an e-copy at a pretty low price. Check it out at http://www.artima.com/shop/programming_in_scala Have fun! -Z

Started by Zemian Deng

0 Nov 22, 2008

Scala 2.7.2.final release is out!

In case you missed it, the new release marks a important date for them. Besides few big features and bugs fixes added, this release will ma…

Started by Zemian Deng

0 Nov 14, 2008

Using scala scripts to check Java jar files

Here I attached two scripts that might help you working with jar files. Have you tried to verify that a Class must exists in a lib directo…

Started by Zemian Deng

0 Sep 11, 2008

Scala Example: a simple cat command

Hi, Here is a simple Scala script that prints or concatenates text files: //file: cat.scala import java.io._ val files = args for(f <-…

Started by Zemian Deng

0 Aug 29, 2008

A super rich Java String with Scala

For the longest time I wish Java support HEREDOC kind of string construct like in Perl and other. This seems to be extremely useful when yo…

Started by Zemian Deng

0 Aug 23, 2008

Sweet-0.0.1 is out

I am excited to announce the first stable release of sweet. There are great samples including database access out here: http://code.google.…

Started by Zemian Deng

0 Aug 5, 2008

SweetScala indeed

Hello everyone, I have started a Scala web framework project at http://code.google.com/p/sweetscala. It's still young, but the distributio…

Started by Zemian Deng

0 Jul 22, 2008

Scala on JVM is pretty sweet

I have been studying the Scala language for the last several months, and I found it very attractive. Not only it can run on JVM and use any…

Started by Zemian Deng

0 Jul 16, 2008

Sample Store Catalog using using Groovy and Grails and the Java Persistence API on Glassfish with MySQL

I modified this Groovy and Grails Catalog Sample application to use JPA entity java classes instead of Groovy domain classes. I followed th…

Started by Carol McDonald

0 Jul 15, 2008

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