Announcing the first release of the Maven Jython Plugin
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.
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