ooof.
I feel like my brain was just hit with a 1-ton sack of suger. I need to
print this email out and digest it. But I am definitely intrigued, ....I may
follow up on this tomorrow...if I can get out from under the weight of this
email! <grin>
Erika
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"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea." -
Walter Bagehot
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher P. Maher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 10:52 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Extending legacy systems through Java
As CF developers we often run into competing technologies and find ourselves
in need of reasons why a CF system is at least as good if not better. There
have been lots of threads here and on CF-Talk comparing CF to other web
development technologies. Rather than ASP or PHP, I have concerns about
other technologies.
I have recently run into companies that are putting legacy applications on
the web through Java clients. This is a real competitive concern for me as
most companies in my target market (insurance) already have back end
systems. If they can easily put these applications on the Internet for their
agents, then it makes what I do (a "real" HTML output system built with CF)
potentially irrelevant.
The two particular products I know about are:
Tarantella http://www.tarantella.com
J Walk Java Client by SEAGULL http://www.seagullsw.com/
The SUN website has an article about extending legacy systems in this manner
which is - obviously - rather positive.
http://java.sun.com/features/1999/08/unshackled1.html
Apart from feeling like my competitors are "cheating" by using such
approaches, I would love to have a better understanding of these approaches
and some ammunition for why they are not as good of a solution as a CF
system.
The particular context for these systems is use by the company's agents. So
the fact that the general public will never download the necessary plugin
isn't a good argument.
Thanks for any input.
Chris
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Christopher P. Maher
Maher Associates, Inc.
Actuarial and Computer Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.maherassociates.com
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