http://www.theserverside.com Most recent forum messages en Jive Forums Silver 5.5.30 (www.jivesoftware.com) Sat, 25 May 2013 09:52:53 -0400 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=60102 I'm curious to know if Scala was considered, and if so, why Java was chosen over Scala.

]]> Tue, 11 May 2010 13:28:15 -0400 Tue, 11 May 2010 13:28:15 -0400 Tue, 11 May 2010 13:28:15 -0400 May 11, 2010 Richard Youngkin 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=60102 ...]]> Mon, 10 May 2010 15:56:40 -0400 Mon, 10 May 2010 15:56:40 -0400 Mon, 10 May 2010 15:56:40 -0400 May 10, 2010 James Watson 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=60102 ...]]> Mon, 10 May 2010 15:48:12 -0400 Mon, 10 May 2010 15:48:12 -0400 Mon, 10 May 2010 15:48:12 -0400 May 10, 2010 James Watson 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=60102 Some 3 years ago our SLA management product needed a new data collection component. Simple stuff: run a few Linux utilities like iostat, df etc.; capture and parse the output; insert data into a database. The team had a Python enthusiast who said...]]> Mon, 10 May 2010 09:41:10 -0400 Mon, 10 May 2010 09:41:10 -0400 Mon, 10 May 2010 09:41:10 -0400 May 10, 2010 opinali 1 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=60102 ...]]> Fri, 07 May 2010 13:51:32 -0400 Fri, 07 May 2010 13:51:32 -0400 Fri, 07 May 2010 13:51:32 -0400 May 7, 2010 Mark N 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=60102 That is in fact about the most important aspect in comparing Java with dynamically typed languages. I am an occasional user of Python, and am always stunned at how people manage to maintain large codebases with such languages. My feeling is that many...]]> Fri, 07 May 2010 06:37:31 -0400 Fri, 07 May 2010 06:37:31 -0400 Fri, 07 May 2010 06:37:31 -0400 May 7, 2010 Christian Sell 1 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=60102 We don't use Jython, which is still way too slow at the moment. Maybe after Java 7 and the new features that the Da Vinci project and the dynamic language enhancements will bring to the JVM it will be faster... but at the time we decided to switch the...]]> Fri, 07 May 2010 05:43:10 -0400 Fri, 07 May 2010 05:43:10 -0400 Fri, 07 May 2010 05:43:10 -0400 May 7, 2010 Florent Guillaume 3 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=60102 How do you proceed when you've got the most flexible and configurable ECM (Enterprise Content Management) product on the market, and you want to elbow out the big players in the industry? Well, the first thing you do is you stop building in...]]> Thu, 06 May 2010 16:55:46 -0400 Thu, 06 May 2010 10:13:04 -0400 Thu, 06 May 2010 16:55:46 -0400 May 6, 2010 Cameron McKenzie 8 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=60102 I wonder Nuxeo uses Jython.  I would guess that they could have their cake and eat it too but using Java in parts of the application that are fundemental and continue to use their Python code where it was adding value.

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