On 22/11/06, Barry Nauta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To all, > > First of all: apologies for this non-jquery related question, but since there > are many experts in web-development on this list, I dare to ask it anyway. > > Our company is looking for a way for 'quick' web-development. Small webapps > consisting of a few webpages with some minimal database interaction. > > We currently develop everything in Java (including webapps), but I find the > whole cycle of developing, compiling (java class files, EJBs etc), deploying, > JNDI setup, db resource setup and recompilation (of the jsps) too heavy. > Additionally, for applications with a limited number of users (50 would be a > huge userbase in this case), I think that a clustered multitier application > server (our current deployment platform) is waaaayyyy too complex. > > I would like to propose a (any?) scripting language as alternative. > > Without making a choice for any language, I am looking for arguments why a > dynamic scripting language in general would be better. > Of course, I am also interested in language characteristics. I know PHP pretty > well, but the other languages are, from a technical point of view, unknown to > me. > > If you feel that this is too off-topic to reply to the list, please reply to > my personal address!!! > > Barry
I used ASP (JScript and a bit of VBScript as the language) but since moved onto PHP as ASP is deprecated and PHP is very powerful and portable (i.e. runs on multiple web servers like Apache, IIS etc). ASP is still widely supported though, even on the cheapest Windows host (for some reason ASP.NET is often an extra, despite it being free to download) and sometimes on Linux ones. Scripting languages do seem to mix up HTML and there own code, so sometimes can be hard to understand (it can be hard to interpret code generated by Dreamweaver, which I think is too verbose and not optimal). _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
