Here is a JavaWorld.com excerpt from newly published Jeff Friesen Apress book, Beginning Java SE 6 Platform: From Novice to Professional.

From TheServerSide.com: In Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects, JRuby core developer Ola Bini shows how to leverage JRuby and Rails in a Java environment – including how to use JRuby from within an EJB (and how to use EJBs from JRuby), integration with message-oriented systems, using web services from JRuby, and managing deployments. These two chapters provide an introduction to JRuby and Rails…

The First International Grails eXchange, sponsored by Apress, is being held October 17th-19th at the Barbican Centre, London, UK…

Ola Bini is one of the core team of developers working on JRuby and the author of Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects, announced separately here on Ruby Inside. In conjunction with the launch of the book, I wanted to ask Ola some questions about his involvement with JRuby, how he used his knowledge to write the book, and where JRuby’s future is heading from here….

Bringing the power of what seems to be the world’s most popular Web application framework, Rails (Ruby on Rails), to Java is now simpler than ever thanks to the JRuby project.

To help learn, understand and use the JRuby project, the highly anticipated Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects by JRuby core developer, Ola Bini, has published and is already available on Amazon.com and other retailers.

This book will empower you to develop Rails applications, even if you’ve never used Ruby. And you later perhaps integrate into your already existing Java/Spring stack. The power of Rails is now in your hands, using this book. Enjoy.

Apress has just published this firstPress book: Raven: Scripting Java™ Builds with Ruby. This firstPress book by Raven founder and lead Matthieu Riou is the first and only book on this important open source Java/Ruby project…

Does JavaFX spell the end of Ajax? This Internetnews.com feature discusses this possibility…

With all the dynamic Java scripting attention going to Groovy and JRuby, don’t forget about these secondary alternatives that are and have been out there…

From Skills Matter: Free Session: In-the-Brain of Graeme Rocher: Grails: Spring + Hibernate development re-invented, April 19th…

InfoQ.com interviews the esteemed Ola Bini, one of the JRuby leads.

Check out this IndicThreads.com interview: Grails is a breath of fresh air for Java developers. Grame is author of The Definitive Guide to Grails.

If you’re in the London area and are interested in learning more about Grails, consider attending a one-day workshop put on by Grails founder and Apress author Graeme Rocher.

NetBeans announces support for Ruby/JRuby. While it comes as no surprise, it’s a reminder that Sun clearly recognizes the Java community interests in Ruby on Rails, and is providing options…

In this JavaWorld.com article, Joshua Fox shows how JRuby can bring the power of Ruby on Rails to your Java application, in whole or as Web tier solution in broader enterprise Java application.

Here is an overview of the new Spring Framework 2.0, as it is re-purposed from The Spring Framework – Reference Documentation found in its entirety online at SpringFramework.org.

The Grails project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 0.4 release of the Grails web application framework.

This article discusses Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 and its support for dynamic Java scripting.

InfoQ.com reports: Interface21’s (and Spring’s) Ben Alex has recently been examining Java2Javascript Pacemaker (J2S), another dynamic Java scripting solution.

From CodeMash, esteemed Java developer and author Chris Judd gave this Scripting for Java presentation, with accompanying source code.

Here are my top ten predictions in Java for 2007…

Groovy 1.0 has been released. Groovy is the Java-based open source dynamic scripting language that is the basis of the Grails Web framework that’s also now available.

From InfoQ.com: The momentum behind Groovy continued to increase this week with the announcement of Big Sky Technology’s funding of Jochen Theodorou’s services full time to work on the project and the launch of the aboutGroovy portal.

The Definitive Guide to Grails written by Grails founder and lead Graeme Rocher and reviewed by Groovy lead Guillaume LaForge and Dierk Koenig, has published…

c/net News.com: “Sun Microsystems released on Monday a Java development kit (Java SE 6) that seeks to meld Java and (Java-based and other) scripting languages.”

Springy lets you use a simple DSL based on JRuby to wire up your Spring context. See Wiring up Spring with JRuby for an introduction.

The following CodeMash Conference announcement was originally posted by Jason Gilmore, Apress Open Source Editorial Director and Inside Open Source Editor.

An Apress eBook is now available for the forthcoming The Definitive Guide to Grails book by Grails founder and lead Graeme Rocher.

Indeed, there is lot of work going on right now that’s focusing in on the various mechanisms for deploying JRuby-based applications; and this article will summarize some of the work happening currently: Advanced Rails Deployment with JRuby.