On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 06:10:02PM -0700, Robert Ritchy wrote:
> In addition to the above - portability. I just finished a complete a servlet
> solution for a BIG company on my dinky pentium 75 linux laptop (apache/jrun). The
> installation on their site (Solaris/NES/JRun Pro) was MINIMAL with no
> environment/configuration changes except for the addition of the path to the new
> servlet. I just uploaded the classes and html templates and updated the jrun
> configuration file.
For servers, I'm unsusre that portability is a big win, or even much better,
with Java than Perl. Perl programs run all over, and well-written C
programs do as well, although probably there would need to be a lot of
changes.
>
> >
> > On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, John Goerzen wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 04:34:03PM -0800, Kevin Hester wrote:
> > >
> > > But what techincal advantage do they really give? Java is slower, uses more
> > > system resources, etc.
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > >
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