NetBeans and GlassFish are making good progress with many scripting languages, the latest being Groovy, which is a particularly easy match to the Java infrastructure. Matthias reports on the new NetBeans 6.1 PlugIn Functionality for Groovy, which includes deploying to GF v2. On the runtime-side, we recently reported on improved Grails Support on v3, and you can track our plans at the GF wiki uder GroovyGrailsPlanning.

GF and NB are collaborating with multiple scripting groups including those on Ruby, Python, JavaScript, PHP and Groovy. Stay tuned for more progress as we get closer to JavaOne.

In his latest blog, Vivek (the new Scripting lead for GlassFish) reports his experience deploying a Grails application to GlassFish v3. We want GlassFish to be a great container for all scripting languages, from JRuby on Rails and P/Jython (Django?) to PHP, Grails and others.

With the recent fixes that went into GlassFish v3, a Grails application deploys in about 10 seconds. While v3 is not yet a final release (latest Tech Preview 2 build available here), it is important for us to track multiple web container use-cases such as Grails application deployment.

The technical integration and user experience of using Grails and GlassFish together can probably still be improved. Stay tuned.

Vivek has a new job: help make GlassFish (v2 and v3) the preferred platform for scripting on the server-side. What languages? JRuby for sure, but we want them all, from Groovy to PHP to Jython, to... Choosing the winner is hard, we want the winner to choose us!

Check Vivek's blog for his announcement, and for his first weekend project: a Ruby Plugin for Hudson. And contact him if you want to help with the effort!

Glen has been playing with Grails but he is also a GlassFish user (check his article on why he switched) and [Grails] 269 was a blocker. That bug has now been fixed and he now reports Success on GlassFish. Glen includes a simple Groovy App: Groogle, a simple Search implemented using Grails (live app, overview, download) Glen also has kind words for Hudson, which recently added a New Remoting Mechanism.

Added - Alexis pointed out that Groovy 1.0 was released.

The JavaPosse is running a series of interviews on the ComputeCycles project. The first interview is quite enjoyable, specially if you are new to the area; and the interview gets better as it progresses. ComputeCycles is based on the ideas of Linda's TupleSpaces and JavaSpaces and ComputeCycles are implementing these using Jini as the foundational infrastructure, GlassFish as the container and Groovy as configuration classes.

Jini has been around for a while and has not got wide adoption but the world has changed and this project seems well grounded in commercial use cases (financial modeling). ComputeCycles was also described at JavaOne '06 in TS 3714. We will keep tracking the project and will let you know.