Jruby

The JRuby team has just announced the release of JRuby 0.9.2 (download). Despite being a minor point release, a lot of things have been tweaked and added. Direct from the team:

(Disclaimer: I'm no Java wiz, so if I get anything wrong about Java or its libraries, post comments!)

The SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) is a GUI widget toolkit for the Java platform. Unlike AWT and Swing, it uses the local operating system's own controls. This means you can develop Java apps that 'look native' on multiple platforms. The popular Eclipse IDE uses SWT to work and looks graphically native on multiple platforms (as does Azureus). SWT is also, reputedly, faster than the other alternatives. Sounds great for developers, right? Java developers.. sure.

Following on from his original interview with Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo of the JRuby team, Pat Eyler has interviewed the team again (read part 1 then part 2), with the addition of Ola Bini. Both parts are quite long and go into a lot of detail about JRuby and Ruby's existence under the Java umbrella.