Hi,
Maybe this will help. When we did our first web applications (internal
MIS, Oracle )
in Nov 93 we used CGI, which was new and took a bit of debugging.
Anything other
that simple applications were cumbersome. In 94 we wrote our own web
server that
connect directly to the oracle database and things got easier. Later we
moved to
Apache and implemented the database access module that parsed our
scripts using
a simple parser and things got even easier, that is, we could do some
difficult tasks
without too much effort. Our Apache/Oracle module is quite mature and
handles
posting of large table directly from Excel to Oracle. (We also wrote an
http add-in
for Excel in 93).
We are now moving to IBM's webSphere using servlets. I've redone a
couple of
applications in servlets and conclude the following:
1. The learning curve was steep but Java is easy compared to some other
languages.
2. It's easy to reuse some of the code built for one application in
other apps, e.g.
my user authenticator.
3. It runs fast, may not quite as fast as our Apache module, I don't
know yet.
Some things seem faster.
4. It's easy to maintain and my co-workers are happier because they
feel like they're in the
main stream.
5. The technology seems stable, doesn't (hasn't) break, and looks like
it will be around
for awhile.
bob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rui Campos [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 1:24 PM
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> Hello!
> I haven't started to use Servlets yet, I'm just trying to decide
> between using CGI or Servelts.
> I already know how to work with CGI, and it seams very simple compared
> to Servlets.
> So if anyone could send me good reasons to work with Servelts instead
> of CGI, I would apreciate it.
>
> Best Regards,
> Rui Campos.
>
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