Java: What does its future hold?

From "Java: What does its future hold?"

Java coders are also limiting the incursions of these new languages by borrowing many of the best techniques and folding them back into Java. Many of the simple declarative patterns from Ruby on Rails were explicitly imitated by Grails, a framework that glues together scripting extensions such as Groovy with database middleware called Hibernate. Groovy itself adds many more dynamic options for code interpretation while linking directly to any part of the Java API. There's no need to even consider Python or Ruby because Groovy lets Java programmers enjoy the seemingly endless variety of a huge library and the rock-solid VM at the foundation with a sleek, modern syntax.

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