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

[Denny Chambers]

I am currently working on a rather large Servlet based application 
myself. When finished, it will be about 80-100 screen. We have been 
using Tomcat/Linux/JDK 1.4.1 with no problems so far. We also use a Web 
Application framework from Enhydra called Barracuda 
(barracuda.enhydra.org). We also use another tool called XMLC which 
compliments the Barracuda framework. Using Barracuda helps to give you a 
clean separation of your UI logic from your back-end logic, something 
traditional CGI, Servlet and JSP/ASP approaches do not give you.. This 
really helps with maintainability.

HTH,

Denny

John Wells wrote:

>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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