[jimbokun]

I agree with you that this was the WO vision. I think what we have settled on instead is JSON over RESTful interfaces. The downside is that it takes a lot more code to hook the web logic into the interface. The good side is that it works across languages and technology stacks, you just need a JSON library and an HTTP stack.

This is probably a good trade off, because the "one language for everything" has never succeeded in practice.