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No, the old Java Application Servers rebranded for Java haters.

So instead of Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) we'll get Enterprise Webasm Workers (EWW)? Might have to work on that acronym, though.

We already have them, that is the thing.

https://deislabs.io/posts/introducing-hippo/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/use-wasi-node-poo...

https://suborbital.dev/

https://blog.cloudflare.com/webassembly-on-cloudflare-worker...

Just a sample, plenty of others chasing WASM gold.

Java application server could run only Java, had really no control over the application (eg kill it if it uses too much memory or throttle it’s cpu), and provided hard to use APIs.

The idea was great, but it was premature and not well thought.

Nope, it could run any language that targeted JVM bytecode and HP-UX Vault already provided container like support for Java Application Servers.

> any language that targeted JVM bytecode

Any language similar to Java. Small subset of languages.

So IBM TIMI then, or dozens of other examples that I can pull out of the hat since 1961.

It is a big crufty old hat full of legacy papers and old scanned computer history.

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