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

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 23:51, Manik Surtani <manik(a)jboss.org&gt; 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).