[ale] need your input on a project...

[Zyman, Andy]

I was about to say Web Sphere... but you need free..  Don't think that it is
possible to get free + good support product nowadays... Hope I'm wrong..

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Wells [mailto:jb at sourceillustrated.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 3:02 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] need your input on a project...
> 
> 
> Guys,
> 
> Just landed a rather large project involving converting a 
> VB/Access/Sql
> Server app to an open source app.
> 
> I'm most likely going the web approach because it makes very 
> good sense in
> this case.
> 
> However, this is where I'm a bit indecisive.  I've used PHP 
> quite a bit in
> the past, and while it's very nice for smaller projects, I 
> think it tends
> to get messy as the project grows.  This particular app will 
> have over 70
> screens and a lot of background processing, so I'm not 
> convinced PHP is
> the way to go.  I also want to go OO, and although PHP has limited OO
> capabilities, it begins to feel a little Perl-y after a while
> (<flamebait>granted, PHP's OO syntax is much cleaner than
> Perl's</flamebait>).
> 
> My next thought was: Gee...wish Python web programming was 
> really *There*.
>  I looked at web programming in python briefly in the past, 
> and it seems
> as if there was either A. cgi scripting,  or B. a number of server
> pages-like projects, but cgi is not the way I'd like to go for
> efficiency's sake, and the server page projects looked to be a little
> beta-ish and not what I need for a project of this magnitude.  Then
> there's Zope, which seems mature, but folks have mentioned 
> problems with
> threading and the like.
> 
> So, finally, my last option is Java/Jsp/Servlets.  I have a lot of
> experience in this area, so coding wouldn't be a problem.  
> However, iirc
> Tomcat is not really intended for production, so I'm not sure 
> what sort of
> servlet/jsp containers are available (and mature) as open source.
> 
> Ultimately, I need something clean and fast, with a fairly 
> good support
> community.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks for your input.  It will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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