> At 05:05 pm 13/12/00 +1300, Nic Wise said:
> >BTW, I can't anit-recommend CGI enough - its not a good option at all.
ISAPI
> >is OK, but its a LOT of work....
> >
>
> I assume you meant "anti-recommend", new buzz word Nic, but what the heck.
yeah, I was trying to double-negative it :) you get the idea :)
> I've got news for you - CGI programming with Delphi is really great - once
> you get past the "recommended" way that people always tell you.
well, it just makes common sense to me. Do you want to load your 400+K
delphi app for every hit, connect to the database for _every_ hit, or have
it loaded once, be able to use connection pooling if you want, and allow
multi-threading with atleast sharing of code space. Makes sense to me.
there again, after using JSP and servlets for the last 2 years, I dunno if
I'd do it any other way anyway....
> Also MUCH more control as well as known outcomes, all without having to
> fluff around with threads and shit.
um, you dont, especially if are using the pageproducers and such - just dont
use global variables, keep them inside the TWebModule and your set.
> Fully programmable applications producing dynamic HTML instead of windows.
Nice, isn't it, regardless of the language behind it :)
> The only problem that I saw was that I had to learn JavaScript (icky yuck)
> to some smarts into the client side.
ugh, yes, its nasty, aint it - I wrote a DHTML app at my previous
employer's - 100K of HTML and javascript on the page. It was NOT pretty.
> Now tell me that Kylix will mean I can produce CGI apps that can run on
> Unix servers.
Yup. Being that that is public knowledge, I can definatly confirm that.
Hell, I did a CGI app in Delphi 6, tested it with apache, copied it over to
my linux box, recompiled it with a few uses clause changes, and ran it under
apache on my linux box. schweet. Even better when they are all Apache DSO's,
so they dont get loaded on each hit :)
N
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