Hello,
AOLserver is currently maintained by my technology group within AOL. Our
priority is supporting AOL's local products and services including Digital
City, MapQuest, and Moviefone. We use AOLserver for much of our work and, to
the extent possible given limited resources, will continue to provide
enhancements and bug fixes going foward in coordination with others involved
in the AOLserver open source project. We also plan to continue maintaining
the aolserver.com web site and this mailing list.
While many other web technologies (JSP, ASP, etc.) are also used throughout
AOL, there are no plans to either discontinue support for Tcl nor engage in
major architectural changes to support these technologies directly within
AOLserver. However, others have extended AOLserver in such ways (e.g.,
support for Python and in-process Java VM's) using the existing C API.
-Jim
Jim Davidson
VP Technology
AOL Local Group
In a message dated 4/30/2001 5:33:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Having just completed a site using using Apache/Tomcat/Interbase (
> http://www.free-minder.com ) at the end of last year I came across
> Greenspun's
> book.
>
> We spent many unproductive hours evaluating whether to use this or that
> buzzword
> compliant technology. Next we had to try to configure an entire software
> circus
> to address a programming model that was solved 40 years ago by IBM with the
> 3270
> terminal. Greenspun's evangelism of the no-nonsense AOLServer + TCL really
> hit
> me between the eyes and I was convinced that my next project would go down
> this
> route.
>
> As we pull together the threads of our next project I am slightly dismayed
> to
> learn of the disputes at the top of Arsdigita as we were planning to use
> the ACS
> system as a springboard to which we would add our subscription based
> application.
>
> My main concern is the porting of the ACS system to Java. To me this looks
> rather like a fashion statement and is something I would seek to avoid
> because
> it will surely just add another tent to the circus.
>
> Is the future direction of AOLServer likely to incorporate integrated Java
> (and
> move away from TCL)?
>
> Can we safely base our software infrastructure strategy on AOLServer + TCL
> (with
> or without ACS) or does the ARSDigita move towards java presage a similar
> shift
> in AOLServer?
>
> Alan Wright
