{"id":312,"date":"2004-01-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-07T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/01\/08\/245\/"},"modified":"2004-01-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-07T23:00:00","slug":"245","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/01\/08\/245\/","title":{"rendered":"Dynamic languages and enterprise VMs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/udell\/2004\/01\/07.html#a881\" title=\"Jon Udell: Dynamic languages and enterprise VMs\">Jon Udell<\/a> struggles with Java APIs &#8211; I agree that dynamic languages (Python and PHP) are just so much easier to use:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;This weekend, I was working with the Java API to Sleepycat&#8217;s Berkeley DB XML, and it felt like one of those bad dreams in which you&#8217;re slogging through molasses toward an ever-receding goal. I switched to Jython and quickly got the job done. And it was the same job (indexing and searching content) using the same engine (Berkeley DB XML).<\/p>\n<p>Of course the even better solution was native Python bound to DB XML, a combination that is not so easy to materialize. When I finally got that working, things really started to cook.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Udell struggles with Java APIs &#8211; I agree that dynamic languages (Python and PHP) are just so much easier to use: &#8222;This weekend, I was working with the Java API to Sleepycat&#8217;s Berkeley DB XML, and it felt like one of those bad dreams in which you&#8217;re slogging through molasses toward an ever-receding goal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}