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

[Mike Millson]

I have 2 clients that use Tomcat in production and haven't had any trouble.
If it's either ready or I haven't pushed it far enough to see its
limitations. I've used it to do heavy duty XML parsing and as the middle
tier for an Oracle application. So far, no complaints.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: John Wells [mailto:jb at sourceillustrated.com]
To: ale at ale.org
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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