This came into an academic list I monitor. You might find it interesting. Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Grant" Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 12:26 PM Subject: An alternative to PHP and ASP > Hello, > > I have finished and put up the document concerning Dreamweaver UltraDev, > PostgreSQL, Apache and Tomcat. It is RedHat Linux specific, but those in > the know will be able to modify the important bits to make it work on > other Unix and Unix like systems. > > The drag and drop database programming with .jsp is in my view a serious > alternative to .asp and .php: > > It is more portable - it will run on Windows NT/2000 (not that > todays news will encourage anyone to use that platform as a _secure_ > web application delivery...) and all Unix platforms including Mac OS > X server. > > It is accesible to non programming designers as soon as the server > admin and database admin have set up the servers. Very shallow > learning curve! Design can be done on Mac or PC. > > Feedback and improvements are accepted with pleasure. > > http://www.animaproductions.com/ultra.html > > Future updates include making the JDBC play nice with foreign languages > and some SQL query goodies to improve on the stuff provided by > Macromedia. > > Cheers > > Tony Grant >