Our pennies worth!
We had a blue sky option and have gone IBM AS/400, IBM HTTP Server (APACHE),
WebSphere, JAVA Servlets, JSP, NetObjects Fusion, and various graphical tools such
as Photoshop.
Our major objectives were:
1. Stability in production for ecommerce applications.
2. Scaleability of production environment.
3. Minimise number of production technologies.
We chose the hardware platform as it contributes to all of the above. They run 24/7
for months on end, have all software from one vendor which restricts the number of
technologies you use and the amount of 'integration' effort. There is clear vendor
responsibility for problems. The scaleability of 400 is wider than anything else I
am aware of.
The development environment is JAVA Servlets and JSP for WebSphere with DB2 for
database. This is supported on Linux, NT, various unix, OS400, and MVS. We can
deploy to client environments in any of these technologies.
We were swayed by the fact this is essentially a transaction processing environment
and that has been IBM's bread and butter since the 1960's! They are the world
leaders in transaction processing, as SUN are in networking, Cray are in super
computing, and Microsoft are in marketing.
We belive the JAVA and JSP technologies are stabalising very quickly and the
stability of the operating environment will be the major factor within six months.
John Anderson
Fred Durham wrote:
> We currently do all development on IIS using ASP combined with ActiveX on
> the server to do what ASP scripts cannot (like beans I think), and ISAPI
> when ASP just can't do what we need.
>
> JSP looks really tempting. Object based (unlike ASP and VBScript), one
> language (Java) right now we keep 3 code bases - ASP, ActiveX + ISAPI
> projects.
>
> However, we know this windows centric system works, and switching is a risk
> (though, as I say, a very tempting one). Bugs, down-time, random crashes,
> weak class libraries, etc are all big problems for us.
>
> * Any brutally honest opinions about the state of JSP is *greatly*
> appreciated.
>
> * Any pointers on which vendor to use for the JSP environment to run in?
>
> * Where's it fail? Given the choice, would any of you rather use a different
> technology?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Fred
>
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