Lately I have been reading that dynamic languages are a really hot on multiple levels. Today, it looks as if Dynamic Java is no exception to this trend. With all of the good surrounding Dynamic Java, there are still some areas that will eventually have to be resolved.

For one thing, there is still quite a bit of debating going on with how some things should be done. Enclosures, promotion, .Net, the list just goes on and on. Even still, the Java community seems to be embracing this new, ‘Dynamic’ way of doing things regardless of any perceived hurdles.

It’s pretty clear that dynamic languages are a hot area, maybe the hottest, in the world of software development. We need to do more to make them easily usable by people in the Java ecosystem. So on Tuesday we held a summit here at Sun, with a few of our internal Java leaders, and on the dynamic-languages side, Larry Wall and Dan Sugalski (Perl and Parrot), Guido van Rossum, Samuele Pedroni and Sean McGrath (Python), and James Strachan (Groovy). It was an educational day for us; herewith some take-aways and pictures.