I*Tea was conceived in early 1997 to replace CGI programming and other resource consuming application server alternatives available at the time.
Today, the standardization of the Java Servlet API and Java Server Pages into the Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition by Sun Microsystems point the way to go for large multi-tiered applications, with middle tiers on Enterprise Java Beans. Nevertheless we feel clearly the need for a fast proototyping scripting language like Tea , specially for developping Web front-ends.
For this reason, Tea is being extended for writing Enterprise Java Beans client applications, and running existing I*Tea application code under a Servlet/Java Server Pages environment is under study (already demonstrated experimentally).