Channels ▼  Eric Bruno  Dr. Dobb's Bloggers  JavaOne: Dynamic
Language Q & A  May 07, 2008  On Wednesday, May 7, I attended a
session at JavaOne where a panel of experts on dynamic languages
fielded questions from the audience. The experts included: Tim
Bray, Charlie Nutter (JRuby), Tor Norbie (NetBeans/dynamic
languages), Ted Leung (Python/dynamic languages), Greg Murray
(JMaki), Bob Bruin (Java FX), Thomas Enebo (JRuby), and Frank
Wierzbicki (Jython)  Here is a transcript of some of the more
interesting questions and answers. Some questions were simply
re-phrasings of earier questions, and some offered much debate.
The discussions have been left off for brevity.   Question: What
is JMaki?  Answer: JMaki allows you to express Ajax
functionality without regard to language or runtime (see 
Question: Groovy is very Java-like, why do we need it? Answer:
Groovy goes way beyond Java in several areas, most of all in
terms of the learning curve. It also includes a web framework
that makes it easy and quick to build