In contrast to JRuby, scripting runtimes like Jython use existing, native script statements to import Java classes. Like Python modules, Java packages can be imported by using the ordinary Python ...

There are the scripting languages that have developed separately from Java and now have Java implementations like Jython (Python), Rhino (ECMAScript), JRuby (Ruby) and Jacl (TCL); these are good ...

SAN FRANCISCO (07/08/2008) – In a not-so-surprising revelation, Sun plans to support the Python and Jython scripting languages in future releases of the open-source NetBeans IDE, which has been ...

I've always just assumed the point of Jython is to be able to write stuff to run on the JVM in Python instead of Java. If I was told to write something that had to run on the JVM, but it didn't ...