> Perhaps a good discussion from here would entail which > technologies have these features.. or how to obtain these > features with different technologies. For instance, we've > already heard about > apache+struts+jboss+etc. etc.... Yes, Walmart, Ebay and others use > Java. There are some pretty large companies using perl too. > What do those companies use for transaction management etc. > PHP, Python, Ruby? > How do you cluster sessions with Rails, or does it have it? > Are there certain things certain languages/platforms just > can't do yet?
To answer your Perl question, if I remember right from my JSP/Servlet training the way Java/J2EE handles transaction management and DB Pooling Perl can do similar with some of the DBI::Class modules. Some of the Catalyst examples on their website show some examples. If I get some time I'll put Perl's answer to all of the Enterprise definitions. Being a Perl Enthusiast, I guess I should show my "humble" non-bias and also say that while Perl can answer most if not all of those, with J2EE you do get all of them in one package in many cases. And to agree with Bryan, based on what I've seen the paycheck is usually about 10K per year more too. Jesse .-----------------------------------. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `-----------------------------------'
