On Friday, Apr 22, 2005, at 16:49 US/Central, Ed Howland wrote:
If you want to use ASP.Net style programming on FLOSS web server, there are a couple of things you can do. Mono comes with its own webserver called (XSP) and there is a mod_mono pkg for apache.
So if I understand you correctly, these are possible configurations:
Web browser (FireFox) <--> Apache w/mod_mono or Web browser (FireFox) <--> Apache <--> XSP or Web browser (FireFox) <--> XSP
Will the above configurations run under both Linux and Windows? That is, will Apache w/mod_mono or XSP run under Windows?
Can't run under Tomcat as far as I know. Or write your own (XSP is both a server and a framework/lib for a Server.)
So Tomcat is strictly Java.
ASP.Net support under Mono is very much farther along than Windows.Forms (rich client.) Other than porting the SQL server stuff, most code should run adequately from an IIS moved to FLOSS server (Linux, *BSD, Mac)
When you say "SQL server stuff" do you mean a generic SQL server or MS SQL Server? I ask because I know that ASP/VBScript can connect to MySQL via ODBC. (Gonna try to make ASP/VBScript connect to MySQL via ADO tonight.)
So what is the process for running Mono code? Take for example a simple "Hello World" program. I'd imagine one would have to write the code in Mono "text", convert it to byte-code somehow, put it in the right folder on the XSP server, and then enter the URL in a browser. Too bad http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/ doesn't have a book on Mono. I like their teaching style.
The reason I'm asking is because I working with a group that teaches high school students computing technology. Currently, it's IIS/ASP/VBScript with MySQL, but we're looking to the future and they are seeing .NET. Apparently, an MS person drops by regularly to give them pep-talks and swag, and brief them on up-and-coming technology. I'd like to broaden their vision.
Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent
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