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I popped along to the London Java Meetup briefly this evening and it was great to see so many new faces, and some old ones too (even if they have switched to the dark side!). Jez has a new toy and I'm glad it runs the BBC micro games quicker than his last laptop. He also has a rather cool little app he's been working on called grash. It's a shell-type environment for Java applications written with Groovy. I think you have to see it to truely understand what's going on, but essentially it gives you UNIX commands like ps, ls and cat over the Java objects running inside a JVM. The ps command shows you the threads running, ls shows the classes that you've configured to look at, and cat shows their toString() value. I hope I got that right. It sounds a little strange but if you think what you could do to production systems with something like this (i.e. management and monitoring in realtime) then it's pretty smart. I'm sure we haven't seen the last of this idea.
Apologies for leaving early, I'm out of London for the rest of the week.
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