[infinispan-dev] Invoking distributed exec and mapreduce over hotrod

[Manik Surtani]

On 5 May 2011, at 04:47, Tristan Tarrant wrote:

> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 23:51, Manik Surtani <manik at jboss.org> wrote:
> 
> So I reckon Javascript is the way to go, at least from a protocol standpoint.  Now how we expose this in remote client APIs (Java, Python, etc) needs some thought, but at first glance it would seem as though we won't have a direct mapping to what we do on the embedded side of things.  E.g., http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/MapReduce
> 
> Actually, using javax.script, we could default to Javascript (which is included in every Java6 implementation out there) but also be able to specify alternatives via a mimetype. In this way one could use any of the JSR 223 languages (Jython, JRuby, Groovy, etc).

Definitely an interesting thought.  However this would require the various script parsers being installed and available.

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