It's fine to use servlets for this purpose, but it's definitely a colossal waste of time and resources in the long run. I just can't think of any E-commerce application where C++ is better than JAVA(including speed/maintainability/secure/complexity/...blah...blah...). There may be a few cases where C++ may seem to be a better choice, but take a hard look and look at future(not too long, just 2-3 years will suffice) and C++ will become a very bad choice. I am sure in next 5 years C++ will be a history at least for E-Commerce applications. Only thing that may remain is some tiny components of big E-Business applications written in C++. I know it hurts to leave C++ after mastering it for a decade but it has lived it's age and same may happen to JAVA after 10 years. Vivek -----Original Message----- From: Mikhail A.Golovanov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 11:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: another servlet usefulness (was: move to unix ) Maybe. But what really makes sense is using servlets for prototyping applications which will then hard-coded using other lower-level and higher-performance environments (namely ISAPI...). Servlets are easy to stretch the required functionality and adjust it, and its true that a lot of java classes for almost all the tasks you might think of are avalilable (some king of idea exchange :-) ). You find and check them and after your prototype is doing what it should/expected and all the functionality is implemented in draft you have a sit somewhere with a good case of bear and rewrite all in C++ or some. Safe and effective. Do not forget that with simple tools you only get simple results. > -----Original Message----- > From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet > API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim > Panton - Westhawk Ltd > Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 1:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: move to unix (was re: ) > > > Using servlets for portability > absolutly does make sense. > > I regularly write servlets on Nt, > and then deploy on one of the > many servlet engines. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
