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Jython Essentials [Kindle Edition]

Samuele Pedroni (Author), Noel Rappin (Author)

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James Richards, GameJUG, August 2002

In examining this valuable scripting extension to the Java programming model, this fills a much needed gap in the information surrounding this language.

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Jython is an implementation of the Python programming language written in 100% pure Java, so it runs under any compliant Java Virtual Machine. The secret to Jython's popularity lies in the combination of Java's librariesand tools with Python's rapid development capabilities. With Jython, you can write Python programs that integrate seamlessly with any Java code. And like Python, Jython can be used interactively, so you can get immediate results as you are programming.

Jython Essentials provides a solid introduction to the Python language, offering a brief but thorough tour of the Python concepts you'll need to understand to use Jython effectively. The book makes frequent comparisonsbetween Python and Java, with special emphasis on the different object-oriented semantics of the two languages, so Java programmers can quickly get up to speed with Jython.

Jython Essentials also covers the various ways in which Jython and Java can interact. For example, Jython code can create instances of pre-existing Java classes and call methods in those instances. You can write Jython classes that are direct subclasses of existing Java classesand use introspection to discern the capabilities of JavaBeans components. This book provides examples of using Jython with existing Java libraries, including the Swing GUI toolkit, the JDBC database API, the Servlet API, and various XML tools. And finally, the book shows howJython can be used as a scripting language within a Java program.

With Jython Essentials, you have everything you need to start creating applications that mix the best of Python's interactivity and Java's robust libraries.

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 2575 KB
Print Length: 302 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media (8 Oct 2010)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Language English
ASIN: B004D4YI8E
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Concise but comprehensive and useful 2 Aug 2002

By Andreas Kaempf

Format:Paperback

This volume is an excellent and practical guide to using Jython. It has good coverage of how Jython works under the hood, including how to access Jython internals from within Java and vice versa, and it also offers a useful introduction to the Python language for those who need this. I found it invaluable over the last few months while building a project that embeds an interactive Jython interpreter within a larger Java program. Highly recommended, especially considering how compact it is!

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful

Informative, but poorly presented 14 Mar 2003

By The Last Person You'd Expect - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Paperback

I found the book to be informative in learning JPython, but it seemed to have ignored the most practical use-cases for JPython, light scripting and unit testing, and kept suggesting JPython as an alternative for working in Java. In addition, I felt the book was poorly (or boringly) written and that the authors failed to draw on any significant amount of experience in writing the book.

I would have preferred a book that wrote of JPython as a scripting language for Java and that offered advice on how best to leverage JPython for this purpose. I recommend taking a hard look at the other titles before purchasing this one.

OK, I'm adding a paragraph to this review after owning the book for a few weeks. It IS a very helpful book and I'm raising my rating from 2 to 4 stars. Perhaps I was thrown off at first by the succinctness of the text, but I've come to find that it makes it a great reference book. I'm already a half-way experienced programmer and do not need the filler and the explanation of concepts that thicker books probably provide.

Also, there is a helpful section on unit testing which I'd missed (It wasn't placed very well in the book) and python is a flexible enough language that someone should be able to figure out different ways to unit test without the section.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

Helpful, but poor explanations 15 Mar 2009

By Easther Crescent - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Paperback

The book is definitely helpful in understanding how Jython works, but the explanations should be made in a much more user-friendly way with more examples. Often I found myself left in the fog. The book sometimes assumes things without explaining. For instance, for simple functions like the following (p. 113):

>> import jarray
>> jarray.array(['crystal', 'ball'],java.lang.String)

you need to import java.lang.String before calling it. I didn't know that but the book doesn't explain that.

Also the book doesn't make clear that to import some java classes you have to include .jar file in the sys.path. It does mention .jar files but should make clear and emphasize that you must include it as a necessary step and also show how to do that. It took me a lot of agonizing and asking around to finally figure these out.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful

Good language coverage, but awkward. 9 Dec 2003

By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com

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This text has good coverage of the language features, but the presentation and organization is poor. If you're a Java developer looking to pick up jython quickly, I'd suggest "Jython for Java Programmers" instead.

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