Honorable mention would be Java an in particular "agent"-frameworks. Thought it would be the future of automation. Perhaps people actually use it, I just haven'

Honorable mention would be Java an in particular "agent"-frameworks. Thought it would be the future of automation. Perhaps people actually use it, I just haven't seen it implemented anywhere. I had a similar thought. Obviously Java "the language" is, indeed, widely used and did become "the future"... but certain parts of the broader Java vision didn't quite pan out: the "mobile code" and "agents" stuff in particular. "Java in the browser" was big for a time, but ultimately faded. Which I actually find quite disappointing on many levels. All of that said, I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that some of the "agent framework" stuff comes back into vogue at some point - at least in specific niche domains - although it may or may not involve Java.