> JavaScript may take longer, unless you already know how to embed
> them.

Embedding Rhino (JavaScript engine in Java, Mozilla) is a matter of 1-2
days of implementation incl. the usage scenario:

var results = connection.execute("select first_name, last_name from
people where town=?", "Manchester");

while (results.next())
doSomething(results.first_name, results.last_name);

delete results;

We embedded Rhino back in 1999-2000 in our framework for web
applications and were quite pleased with the results (remember, there
were no Hibernate at that time).

Roman