Jython

I will be in Los Angeles/Anaheim next week to teach the Open Source Test Workshop. Tuesday, September 30, 2008 from 8 am to 12 pm. This is a free event! Here are the details:

Software developers, QA testers, and IT managers are challenged to rapidly build and test Ajax, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA,) and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) in a time when schedules are short, budgets are tight, standards are few, and much of this is new technology! Find out why AMD, Ford, and The Jackson Laboratory succeed with open source build and test software as a more affordable and flexible option to the traditional test vendors.

Learn how you can leverage open-source RIA application server technology from Appcelerator to rapidly build Ajax applications. Learn how you can leverage open-source testing tools (Selenium, soapUI, PushToTest, TestGen4Web, HTMLUnit) for functional testing, load and performance testing, and business service monitoring, with more flexibility than traditional solutions provide.

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Module 1: The why, what, and how of open-source build and test tools vs. traditional tools
Module 2: Building applications with Rich Internet Application technology without learning JavaScript
Module 3: Testing using record/playback and scripting tools
Module 4: Identifying and solving performance bottlenecks in Rich Internet Applications (Web 2.0 and Ajax)
Module 5: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) testing
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The Jython team release Jython 2.5 Alpha today. Congratulations Jythonistas! Here is the announcement:

On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that Jython 2.5a0+ is available here http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jython/jython_installer-2.5a0.jar for download.  See http://jython.org/Project/installation.html for installation instructions.

This is the first alpha release of Jython 2.5 and contains many new features.  In fact, because we have skipped 2.3 and 2.4, there are too many to even summarize.  A few of the features are:

• Generator expressions
• With statement
• Exceptions as new-style classes
• Unicode support more in line with CPython
• Decorators

Under the hood Jython 2.5 has a new parser based on ANTLR 3.1 and the compiler has been refactored to use ASM.

There are so many more changes that I have missed more than I have listed.  This is an alpha release, so there are known and unknown
bugs, so be careful.