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 ...

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 is an interpreter for the Python language. It is written in Java to run under the Java VM. To handle Python built-in entities, Jython produces Java compatible structures that it passes back and ...