James McGovern on Java and Scripting:

With scripting support, Java will continue to grow by leaps and bounds and may even be the death of other languages delegating them to second-class citizenship. Other features that many of the conference attendees will be talking about that matter include discussions around clustering support, native platform GSS/Kerberos integration, Support for the Simple and Protected GSS-API Negotiation Mechanism (SPNEGO) and the ability to integrate enterprise applications into management consoles via the JMX protocol.

Fascinating. I wonder what his reaction to the SPA 2006 conference would have been. The feel there was that Java was very much not the way to the future.