I have to agree with you there, personally I like flash and would like to see flash incorporated in all browsers on all platforms.
I am looking forward to flash 6.0, and might decide to write my site's ( Stardeveloper.com ) frontend in flash which many of/. users would like to see; a big text-based articles site in flash.
We installed and tested ht://Dig for our website Stardeveloper.com on our local Win2k system along with Cygwin ( required to compile and run linux apps on Windows ) and it ran great. The reason we didn't finally install it on the site was that it runs as a CGI app under IIS, so every time a request comes IIS loads and unloads it. I think if it was possible for ht://Dig to keep running ( possibly as a Windows service ), it would have run lot faster and we would have no problem running it on the production site.
I think people have to realize that Java or.NET can't be one thing for everything.
Java couldn't succeed on applet/desktop side, that's a fact. But it is also a fact that it succeeded on enterprise application framework side, much to the success of it's J2EE platform. J2EE is a complete framework for building enterprise class applications ( JSP to EJB ). Much to it's success is due to the role played by IBM, Oracle, BEA, Borland, Sybase and host of other companies.
Probably if we had been able to create an open source enterprise class application framework using "C" ( my favorite language ), perl, php etc, we would have created faster and smaller apps than any of these two frameworks. When I talk of enterprise class I mean framework which supports Messaging, Transactions etc.
.NET is a new platform and is extremely easy to develop for, thanks to expensive VS.NET. It contains few things which Java lacks ( won't comment on those ). But it is yet to see if it is able to get the attention Microsoft wants it to.
The point is that both of these frameworks are out there because their companies ( Sun and Microsoft ) want to get the maximun money out of you ( and your companies ), not that they love and care about you so they want you to use their software. So my suggestion is that don't get emotional in taking one's side against the other, when these companies care about their interests, you should care about your interest; "choose the software which is best for the job at hand" and stop believing in Java or.NET as if they are relegions.
We are using Orion Server on our web site ( Stardeveloper.com ) for about six months now and one thing I must say is that Orion is excellent. We have not yet faced any problems with it. It runs like a breeze. Oh! and not to forget, we are running Orion on Windows platform with Sun's JDK 1.3.1 and haven't had to reboot the system in months.
Orion takes so less memory ( 35MB out of 512MB available ) and runs so fast, I would suggest everyone to at least give it a try, and if you not thrilled with it's performance, go Tomcat/JBoss way.
I have done all kinds of performance tests on Orion, Resin, IIS,.NET Beta 2, and Tomcat. By far the fastest is Orion, then comes Resin ( which doesn't support EJBs ).
P.S. One thing lacking in Orion is that it currently doesn't fully support J2EE 1.3 specification. Although it does support CMP 2.0 beans and Message-Driven beans, it's support for Local interfaces in EJBs is lacking.
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I have to agree with you there, personally I like flash and would like to see flash incorporated in all browsers on all platforms.
/. users would like to see; a big text-based articles site in flash.
I am looking forward to flash 6.0, and might decide to write my site's ( Stardeveloper.com ) frontend in flash which many of
http://www.stardeveloper.com
We installed and tested ht://Dig for our website Stardeveloper.com on our local Win2k system along with Cygwin ( required to compile and run linux apps on Windows ) and it ran great. The reason we didn't finally install it on the site was that it runs as a CGI app under IIS, so every time a request comes IIS loads and unloads it. I think if it was possible for ht://Dig to keep running ( possibly as a Windows service ), it would have run lot faster and we would have no problem running it on the production site.
I think people have to realize that Java or .NET can't be one thing for everything.
Java couldn't succeed on applet/desktop side, that's a fact. But it is also a fact that it succeeded on enterprise application framework side, much to the success of it's J2EE platform. J2EE is a complete framework for building enterprise class applications ( JSP to EJB ). Much to it's success is due to the role played by IBM, Oracle, BEA, Borland, Sybase and host of other companies.
Probably if we had been able to create an open source enterprise class application framework using "C" ( my favorite language ), perl, php etc, we would have created faster and smaller apps than any of these two frameworks. When I talk of enterprise class I mean framework which supports Messaging, Transactions etc.
.NET is a new platform and is extremely easy to develop for, thanks to expensive VS.NET. It contains few things which Java lacks ( won't comment on those ). But it is yet to see if it is able to get the attention Microsoft wants it to.
The point is that both of these frameworks are out there because their companies ( Sun and Microsoft ) want to get the maximun money out of you ( and your companies ), not that they love and care about you so they want you to use their software. So my suggestion is that don't get emotional in taking one's side against the other, when these companies care about their interests, you should care about your interest; "choose the software which is best for the job at hand" and stop believing in Java or .NET as if they are relegions.
Stardeveloper.com
http://www.stardeveloper.com
We are using Orion Server on our web site ( Stardeveloper.com ) for about six months now and one thing I must say is that Orion is excellent. We have not yet faced any problems with it. It runs like a breeze. Oh! and not to forget, we are running Orion on Windows platform with Sun's JDK 1.3.1 and haven't had to reboot the system in months.
.NET Beta 2, and Tomcat. By far the fastest is Orion, then comes Resin ( which doesn't support EJBs ).
Orion takes so less memory ( 35MB out of 512MB available ) and runs so fast, I would suggest everyone to at least give it a try, and if you not thrilled with it's performance, go Tomcat/JBoss way.
I have done all kinds of performance tests on Orion, Resin, IIS,
P.S. One thing lacking in Orion is that it currently doesn't fully support J2EE 1.3 specification. Although it does support CMP 2.0 beans and Message-Driven beans, it's support for Local interfaces in EJBs is lacking.