Re: [ProgSoc] Servlets

[Telford <telford@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 09:48:08PM +1100, C Nguyen wrote:
> However, there's a fact that we're all neglecting to recognise in this 
> discussion is: there's a large community of Java Developers out there 
> in the industry and probably a large proportion of Progsoc members are 
> java developers themselves. Java is not the greatest language ever ( 
> and probably there's no language that is the greatest anyways ) but it 
> has proven itself as a language designed with the net ( and Internet ) 
> in mind. So, why not use it for internet applications.

So why not sit down and write a CGI wrapper program in C that will
be able to invoke the JVM and pass through the various inputs in
suitable javerised format? I realise that performance will be a bit
poor but ftoomsh is never going to be a big performer anyhow and
if a little bit of attention is paid to compatability then servlets
that run through this CGI wrapper can be plugged into servlet engines
elsewhere... isn't that the whole idea of Java?

If java really is as OO as it pretends then the servlet should not
be able to detect whether it is running inside a CGI wrapper or a
true server.

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