on 5/19/2000 12:50 AM, Bjarne Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jon. Why will jFreeTrade be the ultimate FreeTrade??? What will be gained by
> using this technology over Php? Will there be build in new feathures that will
> not be in the Php edition? Will it be faster? Will it be more stable? ???
Using Java Servlets and a true OO approach and extremely clean framework
design has inherent advantages over PHP. The way that John McNally is
developing it (by using Turbine + WebMacro), it has a very clean separation
of HTML design from code. I would say that it will be easier to customize
the look and feel of the pages in your site with jFreeTrade than with
FreeTrade because you won't even have to learn PHP. There is ZERO html in
Java code.
This code/html abstraction problem was only recently (within the last few
weeks) solved by us after many years of trying. It is a very hard problem to
solve correctly.
Also, Turbine, which is the Java equivalent of FreeEnergy can be more easily
upgraded without affecting the code jFreeTrade system which is a nice
abstraction. In FreeTrade, the two are very interlinked so that pulling out
FreeEnergy or doing development on it separately is a royal pain. Also,
Turbine has a lot more features than FreeEnergy such as a job scheduler,
database abstraction, xml-rpc support, integration with tons of page
template tools (JSP, FreeMarker, WebMacro), event based form submission,
etc...
There are also speed advantages to using Java Servlets solutions...if you
use Tomcat or JServ, you get redundant fail over load balancing across
multiple machines for example. You also get fewer database hits per page
because we don't need to check your authentication on every step. You get
code that can be compiled to native code with a JIT. If you are on Solaris
or NT, you get HotSpot as well.
> And what time will it be released?
Unfortunately, I can't say yet.
-jon
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