Although "Free" is good thing, emphasizing "Free" isn't convincing enough I think.
As far as I know, IIS is free as long as you buy NT *grin*. I am sure that PSU.edu
already have NT licencing agreement with M$, so money isn't the issue...
In my oppinion, you should really tell him about the security,productivity and
future technolgy issue.
I am new to java, but I heard many good things about java security issue, in term of
network security and inner processor security. I am sure your boss is very concerned
with security.
Java is true OOP language, re-use code and etc.. should really boost project
productivity and address why productivity is important. I am sure productivity issue
is very important to your boss.:)
And finally, tell him that PSU.edu is very prestigious highter education
instituition, and in
order to PSU.edu to remain as leader in educational industry(?), must utilize new
technology to become best high-tech work-force "factory(?)" of tomarrow.*grin*
As Mr. Erik Sahl said: "You can run servlets side-by-side with your existing MS only
setup". So, you can recycle regacy technology. and use Servlet to bridge to
new/current
and state of art technology.
Regard, :)
Erik Sahl wrote:
> You can tell him that:
>
> 1- Java servlets are not a strictly Windows thing, so at any time they can
> be moved to a platform not Windowsy. There is a version of the ASP for
> Solaris, but then again - you'd have to purchase that program from a 3rd
> party in addition to the MS app(s).
>
> 2- You don't need a whole lot to get a website built on servlets up and
> running (just a webserver (which there are several for free and a lot of the
> commercial ones already support servlets), the JDK 1.1 or 1.2, JSDK2.x (Java
> Servlet Development Kit), and a place to put your .java/.class files). You
> can also get into .jsp pages, or use FreeMaker or WebMacro, which are freely
> available template languages that produce servlets.
>
> 3- There is a LOT of free Java classes out there which you can utilize
> without having to build a bridge or embed within something else to use (ie:
> there's GIF creation tools and even a GIFServlet which does exactly what
> you're looking for).
>
> 4- There are many books (including the one mentioned by your boss - by
> Jason Hunter) on servlets and many good examples on doing database/resource
> pooling, load balancing, etc.
>
> 5- You can run servlets side-by-side with your existing MS only setup
>
> 6- It's just about free to do so!
>
> ... just to name a few
>
> Plus, you can use a truly Object Oriented language with its benefits (ie:
> code reuse!!) and if you ever want to deploy somewhere else, you can!
>
> Erik Sahl
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Blake
> > Buzzini
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 7:58 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Talking Boss into Servlets?
> >
> >
> > I program for the PSU College of Engineering, which is an MS shop top to
> > bottom. I'm going to be programming a very large, entirely dynamic
> > server-side application which will need to do things like image processing
> > and writing GIFs back to the client. My boss wants to use ASP. Any
> > suggestions on how I can talk him into servlets? He just wrote me, after
> > reading WebReview's excerpt of Jason's book, saying that servlets are just
> > "Java's implementation of ASP", so we might as well use ASP. Oy.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Blake
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