Is Java getting better with age? - page 2 | Newsmakers | CNET News.com: "One of the things that we often find is that people will do the Web page piece in PHP, and then the back-end data analysis kind of stuff is done in Java code. Often, what goes on is not that one technology displaces another, but one technology augments another.

If that increasingly becomes the case--that Java is used on the server, and scripting on the front end--isn't that a problem for Java?
Gosling: I guess I've always thought of the Web front-end stuff, in the spectrum of the world's computing tasks, to be one of the more straightforward and simple. There's a lot of scripting stuff that people have been doing within the Java context--JavaScript itself, languages like Groovy and J/Python and J/Ruby."