I’ve been kind of intrigued by the rumbling growth of JVM languages — that is, other programming languages that can be compiled into JVM-ready bytecode. The first JVM language summit is just wrapping up, and my guess is that the folks who attended will be energized and responsible for big things to come. As Ted Leung put it in his report: “You know that a conference is good when you go home with a list of stuff that you never heard of but now need to go follow up on.” The Java Posse has pretty good resource wrap-up. One sign of this trend comes from someone who wasn’t even at the conference, a blogger who penned this paean to JRuby — despite the fact that he really doesn’t care for Java itself. The question is, will someday Sun drop the “J” from the JVM’s branding and instead promote it as a sort of all-purpose cross-platform programming tool? Software Development