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by haswell 867 days ago
It’s been quite a few years since I worked on this, but spent some time implementing and administering an enterprise infrastructure auto-discovery tool (trying to remember the name - it was a very expensive product from HP, who acquired it from Mercury I think) that was built in Java and exposed a scripting layer to admins via Jython.

I haven’t seen much Jython since, but encountered a few enterprise tools doing this. It was an effective way of enabling advanced use cases and extensions of the existing Java stack without requiring the admin/developer to touch Java.