I built a simple db reporting Intranet with webware and am in the process of building
a much more complex one for use as an
Extranet.
It pulls data from PostGres and MS SQL and the app itself runs on Win2000 and connects
to apache on FreeBSD. I'm moving the
appserver to FreeBSD shortly.
I'm still pretty much in the learning stage as a ptyhon/Webware developer but here are
my thought/experiences: I hope other users
will correct me if I am mistaken about any Webware facts. (You can try to correct my
thoughts as well - my wife has been for years)
I like the java served architecture - persisting little servlets per function makes
sense to me.
But
The Java projects work well with large teams where each programmer can specialize
on a particular area. As I got downsized from
a project manager to a developer I needed a faster simpler way to develop web apps
that 'fit in my brain'
I can understand Webware and trace the code back to the original request much more
easily then with Tomcat.
Java Sevlets uses multi-threaded servlets - making life more complex then it needs
to be. I switched to Enhydra a few years
ago - mainly for the one thread per servlet execution style. Webware has this. (No
silly synchronizing all the time) You can use a
servlet class variable per page nicely.
The Enhydra projects were taking too long, and I honestly did not need high
performance any more - so I switched to PHP.
PHP was great but as apps got complex I notices two things
1) Namespace pollution -
I was running out of ways to name variables, and may projects had over 300
variables instantiated per page.
2) No persistence
I like classes - but PHP has to build every class every time.
So I moved onto webware - It seems the best of both worlds for now. I can develop at
PHP speeds (add a line - view in browser) and
have the clean program design of a Java app.
A side benefit is the fact that I can easily use my 'utility' classes in non-webware
applications. So my login module is also being
used on the server side of a GUI app.
I have not hit any major roadblocks yet - Just the usual novice questions that this
group answered pretty quickly.
(So since I can't handle the harder tech questions yet - I'll try to tackle these)
Thanks,
-Aaron Held
http://www.metrony.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronald Hiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 7:23 AM
Subject: [Webware-discuss] Commercial use of Webware?
> Hi,
> I just joined this list, but have done some searching of the archives...
>
> Are there any commercial projects or sites that are built using
> Webware? What are the potholes?
>
> Thanks,
> Ron
>
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