---------------------------------------------------------------- BEFORE YOU POST, search the faq at <http://java.apache.org/faq/> WHEN YOU POST, include all relevant version numbers, log files, and configuration files. Don't make us guess your problem!!! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Hello to everybody. This is my first message to the list, and I would like somebody to answer some basic questions, for which I din't find answers at the FAQ, or perhaps I didn't understand them. I'm to design the e-commerce structure for a medium size multinational corporation. Now, we're using asp pages, but I feel that even PHP3, which I find better (that's my opinion, I don't want to start a religious war) pages are not the correct way to go, because I think e-commerce can be a lot more that our own web server. We must be able to offer interfaces to others to sell our products. I feel that a good infrastructure should be based on CORBA and/or Java and Servlets, but while I've programmed and understand CORBA, I feel lost with Java. So the fact is that I must make a decision soon, and of course by that time my experience with Java technology will be limited, thats why I'm asking the opinion of the experts that fly around this mailing list. The questions are: I would like to have "net objects" providing an API to access our products description, stock status, etc. Also I feel that this API should be "portable" to other standards. For example: 1)CORBA object gives API -> build ActiveX object aorund it to use it with IIS servers, or -> build servlet around it to use it with apache JServ, or -> use this CORBA API to build a client custom application 2)Or perhaps: servlet gives API -> build ActiveX object around it to use it with IIS servers, or -> build CORBA API around it to build a client custom application, or -> use this servlet API to build a client custom application. Also scalability is a very important issue. I wouldn't like to use NT systems to provide critical services in the final infrastucture, I prefer Unix/Linux systems, because of stability, which is for me as important or more that speed processing, given that e-commerce will be a critical part of our bussiness (yes, I know Internet is unreliable, but I don't want to be responsible for a system that hangs and losts information). But perhaps I'm wrong and somebdoy is using this kind of services with NT machines, and is very happy. I would like to know. This perhaps makes option 1) less atractive, since I don't know any Rapid Development Environment of CORBA Objects for Unix. But I don't know enough of Java technology to be sure that option 2) can provide the infrastucture that I need, or if this technology (I saw RMI/IIOP for Java, looks good) is mature enough for a critical bussines service. So please, anyone would give his/her personal opinion, experiences, etc. Thank you very much -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Please read the FAQ! <http://java.apache.org/faq/> To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives and Other: <http://java.apache.org/main/mail.html> Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
