The Sun Microsystems-sponsored open-source NetBeans IDE will soon be supporting both Python and Sun's Jython dynamic scripting languages, the company has announced. The support is expected in an ...

Before Frank Wierzbicki and I were even hired by Sun to work on Python and Jython, Allan Davis, a member of the NetBeans community, decided to start implementing support for Python in NetBeans in ...

Jython was originally created by Jim Hugunin, who has since moved on and is currently working on IronPython—an open source Python implementation for .NET. Jython's current lead developer is ...

Jython is an implementation of Python on the JVM (Java virtual machine). The latest NetBeans release, NetBeans IDE 6.1, supports Java, C/C++, JavaScript, Ruby and JRuby.

And if that’s not enough there’s Jython, which is Python implemented in, and certified as, 100% pure Java. Like Python, Jython is freely available for commercial and noncommercial use, and is ...

And if that’s not enough there’s Jython, which is Python implemented in, and certified as, 100% pure Java. Like Python, Jython is freely available for commercial and noncommercial use and is ...

Sun also embraced Python more formally in 2008 by hiring two developers to add more Python and Jython support to NetBeans. Sun also added a Python Developer Center to its Sun Developer Network.

But it’s not only Python and Ruby that have found their way onto the JVM. Smalltalk is making its way there, too.