Quoted: Some time ago I had written a little prototype that was quite interesting, but I never pursued it. Maybe I should try to get some people interested and develop it further...
The idea was to use Rhino to have a Javascript-based framework on the server, thus using the same language on the server and on the client, like ASP did in the good old days. I was also thinking of having the source code for custom applications stored in the database, instead of having it in source files, but that's another story. That explains why the examples below are about "applications" and "components"