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I spent 18 months doing LiveWire development and it is pretty lame. I hit the wall of scripting languages' limitations quickly, and even though LiveWire in Enterprise Server 3 added a lot of stuff, it still sucks.For this reason I have dedicated a whole page on my personal site to describing why LiveWire sucks...
http://staff.westlake.com/jamie/software/livewire-sucks.shtml
OK so I understand why you hate Kiva's server. My colleagues and I have done a whole bunch of work since the good ole days of Perl CGI's, to try and find a reasonable server-side programming solution which has RDBMS support.I will first say that we haven't tried CF or AOLServer although those sound viable. My main concern with CF is the plug-in architecture - C only, as I understand (i.e. not Perl or Java). C is so utterly crude and dangerous that I don't touch it if at all possible, so that's a big downer.
We came up with our *own* perl based template solution, which was pretty cool for a while. Then Java servlets came along and swept away all the reasons we had for coding horribly complex ASP and LiveWire stuff. LiveWire at least has a very seamless JavaScript/Java interface so we have some cool stuff that uses JS for presentation and Java for complex, high performance stuff. ASP uses ActiveX which is super horrible, even from Java.
But servlets o...