So Tim Bray (at Sun) has been considering the Beyond Java book. I hear that book quotes this post of mine, but that's an aside.

He thinks the JVM is important. And the web is important. I don't really care about the JVM myself, but I'm all for the second one. If Sun got rid of their stupid licensing I suspect I might even grow to care about the JVM; but because Sun is stupid, Java related tools are a pain to deal with on open source platforms. Open source developers are good at making things less painful, but Sun is too caught up in its self-importance to let us. But that's an aside.

But my point: here is a bandwagon we can jump on! So you want the JVM for you web app, but you don't want to write it in Java and J2EE? Python is right on the cusp of being highly usable there.

What needs to be done? Not that much. Jython of course needs to be updated to match Python 2.4. Luckily after a dormant period I hear Jython development has picked up some, and it's pretty close already. Then we need web frameworks. But we already have those in spades. So we need a WSGI adapter -- which we have in modjy. Every WSGI-enabled web framework won't magically work when that happens, but we'll be really close. There will be stuff to tweak, new database drivers to test (I thought there was a JDBC DBAPI driver, but I can't find it), and installation processes to figure out. But there's no huge leaps that have to occur.

I personally remain indifferent to the JVM (and frankly indifferent to the corporate culture it represents), but there's real opportunity here for someone to take up.