That's a good point. Maybe yours is already the best approach: embed J in a popular and widely-distributed technology stack (.NET in your case) and defer all the "standard stuff" to the popular, mature tools that everyone is already used to. No use re-inventing the wheel.
We still need a way to let the J developer express the interface and semantics of his application so that .NET can expose it as a WS, but that's a much smaller bite. -Dan Please excuse typos; composed on a handheld device. On Apr 24, 2013, at 8:08 PM, Greg Borota <[email protected]> wrote: > About implementing it in J, I can't speak much, I am still picking up the > basics of J. But I guess it's a huge effort, if you want something that can > be hit by at least hundreds of users concurrently... Because you'd have to > implement functionality that currently comes out of the box with the web > servers (apache, iis, etc.) My proof of concept WS returns to me results > instantly. But jhs (at least on my machine) takes too long, and that's just > one user hitting it... > > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am thinking of making J interoperability seamless and transparent. It >> will make it easier to embed J on the server-side if we make its interface >> familiar and standard, and in the current state of the IT world, that means >> web services. >> >> A WS interface will allow us to use modern frontend toolkits to write >> user-facing (browser-based) apps, e.g. in Flash, Silverlight, or more >> likely in days to come, HTML5. >> >> It'll also make it easier to offer headless J-based services into IT >> depts, with leas of the usual friction we encounter when presenting a new, >> (extremely) unfamiliar language. >> >> In short, it lets us express ourselves in the way we prefer (i.e. J code) >> while allowing the outside world to interact with us in the way they prefer >> (i.e. web services). >> >> For this to work, I shine the WS interface has to be implemented natively >> in J; if we require a (specific) technology stack, we risk igniting the >> kind of holy war we are specifically tying to avoid. >> >> -Dan >> >> Please excuse typos; composed on a handheld device. >> >> On Apr 24, 2013, at 3:46 PM, Greg Borota <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dan, do you mind giving details on what you have in mind? I quickly >>> hacked-up a .NET based restful service during my lunch time. It has 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
