[Isolate-interest] Isolates in Ant, Tomcat, etc...

[Curt Cox]

Hi,

I'm curious if there is any contact between the
JSR-121 expert group and the various high-profile
Apache projects that could benefit from isolates.

An isolate enabled Servlet container would allow
the hosting of arbitrary JSPs, servlets, and .wars
much more easily.  The number of commercial web hosts
for Java technologies is woefully small.  An isolate
enabled Tomcat would help by reducing admin costs.
If a web app is sufficiently sandboxed, the amount of
oversight required by the hosting company can be brought
to near zero.

Meanwhile java.net doesn't host any automated build
solutions.  Without isolates they would have to provide
some sort of OS-level sandboxing for any build tools
they chose to support.  With isolates, they could just
rely on an isolate enabled version of Ant or Maven.

The list goes on and on.

I would like to ask when we will get to play with
all the cool toys that isolates will enable.
Since I don't have any reasonable expectation of an
answer to that question, I'm just hoping out loud
that the various toymakers are working together.

- Curt