Scripting languages are great for CMS interfaces and quick configurations, but they are generally poor for building large distributed Web content management applications, where more traditional object-oriented, compiled languages like Java excel. Now Sun announces a program to combine the two, working on an interop effort to allow scripting languages like PHP and Python to work natively in a Java server container. We think this could accellerate some very helpful technical convergence in the CMS space...
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