On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 12:07 +0000, Mark Rogers wrote: > I have an application which will require some offline data processing
> > Therefore Java (which I've never used) springs to mind. Any other > suggestions? If Java, any suggestions for where I should get started? 1. The language. It is competent. It is complete. Has full library support. It is portable. I don't think the same can be said for ecmascript. If you need a reference book I have one, possibly becoming dated by now; though the 50Mb doco download with Sun java is mostly all you need once started. Really good. 2. jsp. As a web interface matches PHP etc. Either pick one of the big boys, or use tomcat. I did the latter and apart from the usual OS issues, updates etc, I found it quite usable. O'Reilly's tomcat, the definitive guide, is quite good, though you'll need support from the mailing list (my view). Note that Python could be considered. Same options as above, possibly lesser support, but probably better informed. Suggest look at 4suite. HTH DaveP. _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
