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This month's Java News Brief (JNB) features Mark Volkmann introducing JRuby the up-and-coming dynamic language for the JVM.

Mark Volkmann: Ahh Ruby... If you didn't already have at least a small interest in Ruby you probably wouldn't be reading this article. What's so interesting about Ruby? Well the people in the know tell us that Ruby is special because ...

• it's object-oriented
• it's dynamically typed, supporting "duck typing"
• it has a compact, yet easy to read syntax
• it features blocks that are closures
• classes and objects are open, which means that methods can be added
• it's the language of the Rails web app. framework

Past Mark Volkmann JNB articles include

• Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator (SWIG)
• Groovy - Scripting for Java (during the original Groovy boom)
• REST Architectural Style