Talk about dynamic languages using Glassfish.

Just came from a talk of using dynamic languages in Glassfish. I would actually have expected some more in-depth information about practical appliances of dynamic languages, but the examples was pretty basic. I am really fond of the idea being able to pick the language of choice when confronted with a problem. If you are encountering a problem that would call for a functional language, pick Scala. If you want to leverage your existing investments in Rails-development, pick Ruby or Jruby. I don't thing that the strength of actually being able to do this cross-language is something that we are going to see much of. However, being able to use a hug range of languages in the same runtime is a very good thing. 

Bringing web into all this is a problem. The package and deploy-step is a mess, and one of the reasons why I am looking into actually moving away from java for web. War-files is a mess, deployment is a mess and app-servers and standards (and deviations of them) is a mess. Why cant we just get some mod_java stuff for Apache and just use apt-get to install it so we can get faster into production. This is where I want to go.