- ISBN13: 978-1-4302-2527-0
- ISBN10: 1-4302-2527-0
- 544 pp.
- Published Feb 2010
- Print Book Price: $54.99
- eBook Price: $38.49
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The Definitive Guide to Jython: Python for the Java Platform
Jython is an open source implementation of the high-level, dynamic, object-oriented scripting language Python seamlessly integrated with the Java platform. The predecessor to Jython, JPython, is certified as 100% Pure Java. Jython is freely available for both commercial and noncommercial use and is distributed with source code. Jython is complementary to Java.
The Definitive Guide to Jython, written by the official Jython team leads, covers the latest Jython 2.5 (or 2.5.x) from the basics to the advanced features. This book begins with a brief introduction to the language and then journeys through Jython’s different features and uses.
The Definitive Guide to Jython is organized for beginners as well as advanced users of the language. The book provides a general overview of the Jython language itself, but it also includes intermediate and advanced topics regarding database, web, and GUI applications; Web services/SOA; and integration, concurrency, and parallelism, to name a few.
What you'll learn
- How to handle Jython basics like language syntax and concepts
- How to use the Jython scripting language for I/O, Java/Jython integration, and Jython in an IDE and databases
- How to integrate Jython with the Django web framework and even Spring
- How to develop web applications with Jython including web services/SOA, GUI considerations, and deployment targets
- How to conduct testing, continuous integration, concurrency, scaling, and more with Jython
Who is this book for?
This book is for Java web developers looking to use a dynamic scripting language as an alternative to Groovy or JRuby. Other web developers who use Python and Django may also be interested in this book.
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Josh Juneau
Josh Juneau has been developing software since the mid 1990s. PL/SQL development and database programming was the focus of his career in the beginning, but as his skills developed, he began to use Java and later shifted to it as a primary base for his application development. Josh has worked with Java in the form of GUI, web, and command-line programming for several years. During his tenure as a Java developer, he has worked with many frameworks such as JSF, EJB, and JBoss Seam. At the same time, Josh has extended his knowledge of the JVM by learning and developing applications with other JVM languages such as Jython and Groovy. His interest in learning new languages that run on the JVM led to his interest in Jython. Since 2006, Josh has been the editor and publisher for the Jython Monthly newsletter. In late 2008, he began a podcast dedicated to the Jython programming language.
Jim Baker
Jim Baker has over 15 years of professional software development experience, focusing on business intelligence, enterprise system management, and high-performance web applications. Jim is a committer on Jython and also leads the Front Range Pythoneers, a merry band of Python enthusiasts in Boulder, Colorado. Jim graduated from Harvard College, A.B., computer science magna cum laude and Brown University, Sc.M., computer science (and an all-but-dissertation Ph.D. candidate).
Frank Wierzbicki
Frank Wierzbicki is the head of the Jython project and a lead software developer at Sauce Labs. He has been programming since the Commodore 64 was the king of home computers (look it up kids!) and can't imagine why anyone would do anything else for a living. Frank's most enduring hobby is picking up new programming languages, but he has yet to find one that is more fun to work with than Python.
Leo Soto
Leonardo Soto is part of the Jython development team from the middle of 2008, after a successfully completed Google Summer of Code Project that aimed to run and integrate the Django web framework with Jython. He is also a last-year student of informatics engineering at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. He has developed several software systems in the past seven years, most of them being web applications, and most of them based on the JavaEE (formerly J2EE) platform. However, he has been spoiled by Python since almost the start of his professional developer career, and he has missed its power and clarity countless times, which inexorably turned him toward the Jython project.
Victor Ng
Victor Ng has been slinging Python code in enterprises for about 10 years now and has worked in the banking, adventure travel, and telecommunications industries. He started a small consulting company with his friend in 2006 called Monkeybean, Inc. (so named after his daughter's nickname). He lives just outside of Toronto, Ontario, in Canada.