Yesterday supposed to be my last day @work. But somehow I must come again on Monday, and reschedule my flight to Batam to Tuesday. Moving to different kind of industry, but still in the same JEE/WebLogic/Solaris/Oracle path. Just a bit apart from the telco industry.
Lately I wasn't able to update this blog because at client office, they block the blog sites. Now, after being freed now I can start updating this blog again.
After accidentally meeting with John Stovall while at Changi Airport, I got enticed to learn more and more about Python, and Jython, its Java porting. First time I met John when I came to JaMU, December 2006. I was presenting Maven 2 technology, and each of the attendees were asked to introduce themselves. You can't miss noticing that big John. We happened to be in the same airplane, and after arrived at Changi airport, I began to recover his name, I called him, "Mr. Stovall", and then he began noticing an acquaintance. He's on the way to Amsterdam, to attend a Python meeting. He began preaching the beauty of Python, the philosophy behind it: "there should be one best way to do it...". I was also realizing that the reason why Guido von Rossum moved to Google was because of almost the entire Google site is based on Python.
I told John that I was using some Jython script because it is part of the WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST). I learned a lot on it because some of my tasks while at Ericsson's project at Cyberjaya, was to create a automatic installation, deployment and setting tools. I found out that the best way to do it is through WLST. The older method wlshell still works, but using WLST, you could have access to a broader range of futures, both offline and online (requires a running WebLogic instance).
After returning to my regular tasks at Jakarta, I began downloading latest version of Jython. Before that, I have tried one of the scripting languages that has catch up the wave and has been ported to Java: JRuby. I also tried the scripting language made specially for Java: Groovy.
I began to fall in love working with Jython. You can utilize Java classes. The scripting language is close to the functional language I've been using a lot: Gofer+, a derivation of Haskell. Prof. Wishnu Prasetya taught us Data Structure and Algorithms using that functional language. Prof Mia Indika also taught the functional programming using the Haskell language. Python, er, Jython scripting more or less resemble that of Haskell. Sorry, for most of you who learned functional programming through typing lots of Irritating Parentheses (LISP). Though I also used Scheme when learning functional programming, later I mostly used the Gofer+/Haskell family of language.
Python also supports closure, so there is no point that Ruby is better. It only has Rails that makes it famous. I know when I learn Jython in depth, this is two fold, I could create better WLST scripts for WebLogic automatic deployments and configurations, and also be able to do OOP scripting for fast prototyping. I try to construct a script to test Hibernate DAOs and Managers. I will share some of these scripts when have more time to write it.
