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

[Ryan Matteson]

Tomcat rocks as a servlet container. If you have money, look
into Weblogic. I have been extremely happy with our BEA
deployments. Their clustering, Data base connection pooling 
and Global transaction support rock. Not to mention their
kickass EJB/Web containers (No I do not work for BEA).

- Ryan

On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 15:01, 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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