The Definitive Guide to Jython

- Part I: Jython Basics: Learning the Language
1: Language and Syntax
2: Data Types and Referencing
3: Flow and Expressions
4: Defining Functions and Using Built-Ins
5: Exception Handling in Jython
6: Object Oriented Jython
7: Modules, Packages, and Reuse

- Part II: Using the Language
8: Scripting with Jython
9: Input and Output
10: Java and Jython Integration
11: Using Jython in an IDE
12: Databases and Jython

- Part III: Developing Applications with Jython
13: Web Applications
14: Web Services and SOA
15: GUI Applications
16: Deployment Targets

- Part IV: Strategy and Technique
17: Testing and Continuous Integration
18: Concurrency and Parallelism

Josh Juneau has been developing software since the mid 1990's. PL/SQL development and database programming was the focus of his career in the beginning, but as his skills developed he began to use Java and later shifted to Java as a primary base for his application development. Josh has worked with Java in the form of GUI, Web, and command line programming for several years. During his tenure as a Java developer, he has worked with many frameworks such as JSF, EJB, and JBoss Seam. At the same time, Josh has extended his knowledge of the JVM by learning and developing applications with other JVM languages such as Jython and Groovy. His interest in learning new languages that run on the JVM led to his interest in Jython. Since 2006, Josh has been the editor and publisher for the Jython Monthly newsletter. In late 2008, he began a podcast dedicated to the Jython programming language.

Jim Baker has over 15 years of professional software development experience, focusing on business intelligence, enterprise system management, and high-performance web applications. Jim is a committer on Jython and also leads the Front Range Pythoneers, a merry band of Python enthusiasts in Boulder, Colorado. Jim graduated from Harvard College, A.B., Computer Science magna cum laude and Brown University, Sc.M., Computer Science (and an all-but-dissertation PhD candidate).

Leonardo Soto is part of the Jython development team from the middleof 2008, after a successfully completed Google Summer of Code Project,which aimed to run and integrate the Django web framework with Jython. He is also a last-year student of Informatics Engineering on theUniversidad de Santiago de Chile. He has developed several softwaresystems in the past seven years, most of them being web applications,most of them based on the JavaEE (formerly J2EE) platform. However, hehas been spoiled by Python since almost the start of his professionaldeveloper career and have missed its power and clarity countlesstimes,