On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 23:51, Manik Surtani <manik@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).