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

[Fulton Green]

Wow, what a cool opportunity.

I do know that mod_python for Apache has existed for some time. That said, I
have absolutely no experience with it, so I can't speak for its usefulness.

In fact, my only significant experience with back-end web stuff has been
with <hack/>ASP<cough/> and various J2EE options. If you're able to cleanly
separate the maintenance tasks between the web designer and the web software
engineer (in case they're different people), the JSP/J2EE approach might not
be too bad. Except for the 70 screens part. My gut feeling says to look into
another open source technology called Struts (see http://Jakarta.Apache.org/
for details). It uses a model-view-controller (MVC) approach, and I believe
it's templatable, which would help out for the massive amount of screens
you'll have.

As for the stability of Tomcat, keep in mind that even before Sun donated
it to the Jakarta cause, it was the reference implementation for JSP and
servlet processing. It's probably not going to scream when compared to
Web[Logic|Sphere], but it should do alright for your purposes.

And if you wind up needing Enterprise JavaBeans capability, the JBoss
project ( www.JBoss.org ) can help you out. Factoid: several people on that
project, including the founder, live right here in the ATL!

On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:01:32PM -0400, John Wells wrote:
> 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
...
> My next thought was: Gee...wish Python web programming was really *There*.
...
> 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.

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