At 11:32 AM -0800 3/9/99, Jeroen Clarysse wrote:
> I just phoned with a low-level programmer who has written his own webserver
> and stuff. He says that, for $25K, he can write a multithreaded, ultrafast
> UNIX C-app that does all the basic stuff for form-processing, database
> access and page-generation with a nice GUI. (using PowePlant, GUI is easy)
>
> in fact, he tells me that, for this price, any small programmers team can
> write a package that does everything a *lightweight* WebObjects would do.
> With no tpm-limit. "perfect for your small intranet solutions" as he puts
> it : "Handles 100hits per minute like a piece of cake".
>
>
> that summs it up pretty much I think why Apple is losing WebObjects at a
> high rate.
I've actually done the above. It was kind of a mini-WO. You could
have a <TWINFORCES> tag in your HTML, and our server would parse the
HTML and generate pages on the fly. We even did database access.
Sure, it cost about $25K.
But it didn't work 100%. Read the EOF chapter on "Uniquing". We
didn't do that. Nor did we have an easy way to handle session
identification, timeouts, or form processing. Or caching.
Plus there weren't any web page design tools that could handle a
<TWINFORCES> tag.
And so on.
Until you've tried to do it the hard way, you don't realize how cool WO is.
Pierce
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