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This one has been a long time coming. I am pleased to announce the first release of the WebReboot® Command Line Tool.

For End Users (most people)

The WebReboot Command Line Tool is a freely available tool for accessing your WebReboot from a command-line interface. This tool is appropriate for those that cannot access the WebReboot through its Web interface in their computing environment. This may be the case, for example, if you run a headless Linux or BSD terminal remotely.

You can read the user’s manual to get started and then download the application.

For Developers

The application made available as open source under the Apache Software License v2. As it is Jython-based, it makes use of the recently released maven-jython-plugin and highlights how you can use the WebReboot API to write applications that interface with your WebReboot.

You can download the source code.

We’ve been intrigued with Jython for some time, here at Servprise. We do a lot of Python and a lot of Java, so a combination of the two seemed natural. I’ve been trying to get involved with the Jython project in one form or another for a little while now. It had seemed like a dead project though, and I didn’t want us to commit any resources to something that wasn’t likely to be supported. All that changed with the Jython 2.2-beta-1 release, however.

At that point, I started to get involved with packaging Jython up for distribution via maven. While on the outset that helps anyone using Jython in an arbitrary maven project, my real goal was to make things simpler for the maven-jython-plugin that we were putting together. Now that the Jython bundle is picked up on the central maven repositories, we can go ahead and release the initial version of the maven-jython-plugin.

The purpose of this plugin is to make working with Jython source files as natural as working with Java source files in a project. We’re a far ways off from that goal, but this initial release provides a remarkable improvement over straight jythonc, in my opinion. We actually have a small bit of software being developed with this plugin that should be released later this week.

The maven-jython-plugin is being distributed as open source software under the Apache Software License v2. You can learn more about how to use the plugin by visiting the maven-jython-plugin project page. I am leading up the development effort on this plugin, so please address any comments/questions/concerns to me.