Unless I misunderstand you completely, I think you need to rephrase the
question. Servlets are simply tools that can be used to provide a
solution to a particular problem. Whether or not you use them has
nothing to do with the size of the servlet "market" (unless, of course,
you're actually trying to SELL servlets), but rather on whether servlets
provide the best tool for the job at hand.
I work in an organization that uses a variety of systems, including Cold
Fusion, Perl, ASP, etc, and IMHO, although each has its own merits and
disadvantages, servlets offer quite a lot of advantages over these
others (there have been discussion of this before). Servlets are
eminently reusable, fast, easily maintainable, relatively portable, and
relatively "non-proprietary" for intranet use (the use of cold fusion
for example, necessitates the licensing of the software and the need for
the cold fusion app server). ASP, as another example, is relatively easy
to set up for small applications, but the maintenance is a nightmare,
and everything gets really messy for large appliactions. In fact, some
people who are unfortunate enough to get the job of doing ASP (due to
client insistence) complain incessantly how "ugly" the system is. This
is a system that I hope will die a slow and painful death.
Ried Thiel wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I need to do a justification of why to use Servlets and I was hoping someone
> might have come across some articles with information about how big the servlet
> market is and what the expected growth is over the next couple years.
>
> Any help is appreciated,
> Ried
>
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