Nailgun is Cool

Sunday, February 13th, 2005

I've been checking out Marty Lamb's Nailgun project, which is a Java server running classes, executed by a small command-line client in C, using a custom communication protocol. The C client, of course, starts up immediately, and the cost of starting the JVM is taken up when the Nailgun server ...

Dynamic Languages on the JVM

Friday, February 11th, 2005

Dynamic Language Integration in the JVM I've been interested to see the different languages built on top of the JVM. If you do a web search for "jvm languages", you'll find a whole slew of them listed, some of which are still in active maintenance. One newish one, Groovy, has been ...