When it comes to early adoption of technologies, Eclipse stands behind NetBeans. Sun and the NetBeans Community, last week, announced an early access release of the NetBeans Ruby Pack which provides support for the Ruby programming language. As you already know that JVM will now allow scripting languages to be run on it.
The NetBeans plug-in offers developers added support for dynamic and scripting languages and includes editing features for both Ruby and JRuby – a 100% pure-Java implementation of the Ruby programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine.
As you already know that from Java 6.0, JVM wont be running Java alone. Its going to run a lot of scripting languages too. Rhino, the Mozilla implementation of Javascript is the one that is officially announced. There are already too many tutorials in the web on how to run Javascript in Java 6.0.
Mid last year, there was so much hype about Ruby on Rails and that it is going to shun Java to oblivion very soon. The ease of development with Ruby on Rails made that trick. But then experts opined that Ruby will hold its own niche just like PHP and wouldnt be replacing Java in the enterprise market, now that Java has become more a standard than a technology.
Following the Ruby hype, JRuby came into existence. Ruby interpreter, which was originally written in C, was written completely in Java and guess what, Ruby will now run on your JVM. Please visit the JRuby homepage for more details.
JRuby … Ruby on Rails… Thats right. JRuby on Rails. A new Java web application framework comes into existence. Just like any upcoming web frameworks, there is less of configuration and more of tier based stack ups.
So, two years down the line you will be working with a programmer who writes a completely different language and will ask you to speed up your JDBC code. You have to buddy. He calls your code and shares your JVM.
