Re: Clojure for largish web application?

2010-01-23 Thread Howard Lewis Ship
It's still very young days for any of the Clojure web frameworks (including -shameless plug- Cascade). My favorite web framework (for obvious reasons) is Tapestry; there's years and years of experience behind it to make it a very effective, very productive, and extremely high-performance

Re: Clojure for largish web application?

2010-01-23 Thread Stuart Sierra
I successfully used Clojure, Restlet, StringTemplate, and the Simple servlet framework to handle all traffic on www.altlaw.org. My scaling requirements were a tad unusual -- only ~10,000 visitors per day, but over a million pages. This was all on a single EC2 small instance, also running Solr.

Clojure for largish web application?

2010-01-22 Thread cperkins
I've read that people have been able to use Clojure with some of the Java web servers. I am not familiar with any Java web servers or web frameworks and wonder if anyone who knows more about them can advise me. FWIW I'm also not familiar with load balancing or multi-server setups for web

Re: Clojure for largish web application?

2010-01-22 Thread Shantanu Kumar
On Jan 22, 11:09 am, cperkins cperk...@medialab.com wrote: I've read that people have been able to use Clojure with some of the Java web servers.  I am not familiar with any Java web servers or web frameworks and wonder if anyone who knows more about them can advise me. FWIW I'm also not

Re: Clojure for largish web application?

2010-01-22 Thread Richard Newman
I've developed some smaller web applications using Common Lisp, but I'm not confident that any of the CL web servers (CL-HTTP, Hunchentoot, AllegroServe, Araneida, mod_lisp, et al) are up to handling high traffic high data sites. (Maybe they are, I just don't know). Does anyone know how good