Yea Jim!!! Thanks very much for keeping the core of AOLserver as is. I think that Tcl is still a very viable language, especially for web-database applications. Though other technologies can certainly be used with AOLserver, it may not necessarily be appropriate for pure Java, Python, Rebol, etc., applications, though I also use AOLserver to develop and test PHP applications for another site that uses Apache/PHP. Thanks very much again for your support, Ron Jim Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ======================================================= Ron Patterson | USA.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1155 Kelly Johnson Blvd 719-785-2328 | Colorado Springs, CO 80920 AOL/Yahoo IM: RonPDude | ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
