Michael OShea

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since April 30, 1999

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April 30, 1999, on Application Servers:
Interesting perspective on app servers! "Java as a language is mediocre for web applications" Mr Greenspun's main points are: Java requires a lot of typing (True), Java is compiled, which adds steps to the development process. (True). Although, as with any reasonably rich language, a skilled programmer will quickly develop worker classes/methods to shorten common tasks - such as string handling. Also, Java is technically interpreted and capable of dynamically including classes - so much of the advantages of on-the-fly code changes can be implemented by designing an application to pickup new extensions dynamically. Anyway, I wouldn't spend much time debating this-vs-that language. It ranks in the this-vs-that editor debate. Everyone has their preferences and no one will agree once they've chosen their favorite... "Application server comments - et. al." Now here are where some compelling statements and e...