More progress towards the Scripting on v3 story: Vivek reports success in running his first Jython Servlet on GlassFish v3. Check Vivek's Note for details and complete sources. Early steps, but I'm looking forward to what come out from Vivek and Frank working on this together.

Python joins the club! Ted and Frank have joined Sun to work on Python and Jython (On the Record, eWeek, Infoworld). They join JRuby and JavaScript and Groovy and Quercus(PHP) - and others! - as part of the non-Java on (J)VM family.

Welcomes from Vivek, Kuldip, Roman and Rich. I worked briefly with Ted years ago around JAXP, and Frank and I have talked a number of times about Jython and GlassFish. A very strong welcome!

We are committed to making GlassFish the best server-side platform available. We can do a lot with GFv2 and much more with GFv3. By themselves and together with Java EE 6. The future will be very interesting!

Added - Both Frank and Ted have written about why they chose to join Sun, check it here and here.

I have not done a spotlight on Hudson in a while and there is a lot to mention, so this note is full of links:

• Goodies: New Eclipse Plugin, FindBugs, Start/Stop Scripts • Goodies, 2: Sventon, Python, Groovy • Adoption: New Chapter, testimonials in Spanish, French, Japan and elsewhere • Kind words: Hudson Rules! and This is good stuff. Check it out! • Kind words, 2: SDTimes Editor and Informal Poll • Getting Ready for SailFin: Blog, Live Report Page • Getting Ready for GlassFish v3: Port Allocator

And, if you want to show (off?) your support, go visit the CafePress Store

The next GlassFish administration meeting is today (Thu, Aug 23rd) at 8am PT. The agenda includes starting to discuss GlassFish v3; see the Announcement for details.

A separate mail thread asked about using JACL (see JACL website) for V3, so that may come up in the meeting. When looking around I noticed that IBM is deprecating JACL in WebSphere and instead is planning to switch to only Jython - seems a good question to consider.

More WADL news from Thomas: the latest version of REST Compile can generate clients in Ruby and Python in addition to the original PHP. As before, the Web App is here (and the german version is here - no catalan yet :-]). Since we are Wadling..., check Paul's comments on its benefits and the documentation on RESTful Web Services in SWDP r2 - which also supports WADL.

"Which is the better language?..." Wrong Question!. One cannot compare languages as diverse as AWK, APL, Snobol, Prolog, Fortran, Lisp, Python, Java, PHP, and Many Others. More appropriate questions are "Which language I like best?", or, even better, "Which is the best language for my team to accomplish this tast within these constraints?". And, with that introduction... Nuxeo is an Open Source company that has a popular Enterprise Content Management. This product was initially developed in Python but they just Annouced a Switch to Java EE. It is not that they do no longer like Python; just that Java EE made more sense for them in their context.

If you are interested in programming languages there are a number of fun links out in the web including the Online History of Programming Languages, a nice Graphical Timeline, several articles in Wikipedia, including a List of Programming Languages, and this fun presentation by Dick Gabriel and Guy Steele on the Lisp Family. And don't tell me I missed your favorite language; that is the whole point of this blog! :-)