Remember Groovy, the JVM-based scripting language that the Java world was abuzz about? I gather that it has bogged down in the JSR process, and all the buzz seems to have faded away. I don't know if this means anything, but the following email just came in from the JCP:
To: JCP-INTEREST(at)java.sun.com From: Liz Kiener Subject: JSR 241 - Spec Lead Change - The Groovy Programming Language ------ The Spec Lead of JSR 241 has changed from James Strachan to Guillaume Laforge.
I don't know James or Guillaume, and I don't even know Groovy, for that matter. But wouldn't it be nice if this change got us a standardized version of Groovy sooner?
Guillaume has been heading up the effort for about a year now. Tidying up the official record may be a precursor to a real release, but you'd have to look at the Groovy mailing lists to confirm that.
James Strachan must be too busy with his SOA projects. He's heavily involved with ServiceMix and ActiveMQ (JMS).
The Javaposse spoke about/with Guillaume a number of times.
This Spec Lead change seems to be for the best.