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

[John Wells]

Andy,

Doesn't have to be good support....I'd rather have active support, like 
an active mailing list or #irc or something along those lines.

Thanks!
John

Zyman, Andy said:
> 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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