[guitarbill]

Java servlets were likely inspired by FastCGI, and WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface, Python) is known to be inspired by both, so I doubt that's true. There were just more convenient solutions than having to write the IPC part yourself.

[mey]

For something literly like FastCGI in Java land, there is AJP , if you are front loading Tomcat/Jetty/JBoss w/ Httpd/IIS/etc.

https://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/ajp/ajpv13a.html https://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/miscellaneous/faq.h...