IITC Poster

This is the poster which was displayed at IITC on behalf of my project. I had this idea about the logo and Harshan & Pandula helped me to make my idea a reality. Mr Dulan Wathugala's constructive criticism helped me to improve the poster's appearance.

Deploying a Python Service on Axis2

Apache Axis2/Java, is a popular open source Web service engine. It currently supports exposing services written in Java, Javascript and Ruby as Web services. This article discusses the Python data Binding that enable exposing Web services written in Python.

Axis2/Java is now able to expose a service written Python as a Web service. The underlying deployer will read the annotations and perform data-binding, schema generation. Schema generated will be passed on to the Axis2 engine, which will then perform the WSDL generation. Thereafter, a client is able to invoke the service using the WSDL generated.

Invoking Enterprise Web Services using Jython

This article discusses the usage of WSO2 WSF/Jython API to write Web service clients in Jython. WSF/Jython's Jython-Client API can be used to write a Jython service clients. It supports attachments with MTOM, SOAP, REST and WS-* standards such as WS-Addressing, WS-Security.

Jython Web Services with Axis2 - WSO2 WSF/Jython 1.0 alpha release

WSO2 Web Services Framework for Jython (WSO2 WSF/Jython), is an open source framework for exposing and consuming enterprise level Web Services in Jython.

You can download the source and binary distributions from the following URL.
http://wso2.org/projects/wsf/jython

You can read the following articles.
http://wso2.org/library/articles/deploying-python-service-axis2
http://wso2.org/library/invoking-enterprise-web-services-using-jython

Pleas feel free to send any feedback to our forum.
http://wso2.org/forum/797

For further details please visit our project's website at:
http://wso2.org/projects/wsf/jython

"SUN Setting" their eyes on Python

SUN is planning to support Jython and Python languages. This will be done in their future Netbeans IDE releases. It will support Syntax highlighting with version support, Code Completion, Python/Jython support, PyUnit support, Debugger support, Python library manager, Bundled Jython Package and Execution of python scripts. Earlier this year SUN hired Frank Wierzbicki (who is leading the Jython project). I think he might be one of the forces behind this decision. So it is a good news that SUN opted to support Jython and Python.

What is Jython?

JPython was the first implementation of Python programming language in java. Then the project was moved to SourceForge and renamed Jython. Jython is a programming hybrid. It exhibits the strengths of both its parents, namely Java and Python. Since Jython is written in 100% pure java , scripts written using jython will run on top of any compliant Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Jython interpreter will support existing java libraries as if they were your own python modules.
I have been playing around with Jython for about 6 months now. I have an idea to start a mini-tutorial series out of the knowledge I gathered upto now. So stay tuned in to my blog ;)