Begin forwarded message: > From: John Nicholas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri Apr 27, 2001 06:26:04 AM US/Pacific > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: tomcat and ISPs > > Hi Duncan, > I'm writing you just because you were the first name on the "who we are" > page on jakarta.apache.org site :) You're probably not the guy to > implement > this but I'm hoping you know who could. > > I'm a professional web developer and have been working with Java for a > while > on my own projects and am really enjoying it. Right now I'm doing a lot > of > freelance for small companies and agencies and have noticed that it > isn't > very easy to use servlets in place of PHP or Perl simply because of > availability at the hosting service level. > > I think one of the main reasons PHP is so popular is that almost all > hosting > services have it. At my level of development (as in customer size), when > someone asks me about a project I have to ask what technology their > hosting > company supports and 90% of the time it's PHP and MySQL. They usually > already have a setup they're comfortable with and are unlikely to move > to a > java friendly host for one project. > > I think a how-to page for ISPs on how to implement Tomcat in an ISP > enviroment would go a long way towards encouraging these guys to add > JSP and > Servlet support to their product mix. They are almost always Apache > shops so > I think that Tomcat would be the most natural method for them to use. > > Thanks, > John Nicholas
