Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to A Technical Paper on Java

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Posted by Talli Somekh on
I think that this is a very strong beginning, Ben, but as you said I look at it as a draft so I hope my comments are useful.

I think that as an argument for OpenACS it's excellent. But as Walter pointed out it needs a greater comparison to some of the Java apts out there. In the section entitled "Java and J2EE -- not that revolutionary", the first paragraph is a mention of what Java is and the rest of the section is another argument for OpenACS. I think that's fine to use those arguments, but this section should probably be a more objective analysis of Java.

Kevin Scaldaferri writes: "This doc seems mostly to be arguing why you are happy with TCL and not inclined to go through the work involved to switch languages. That's perfectly fine, but the article is posed as an argument about the inherent potential of the two languages. So, I'd like to see a little more honesty about the real issue under consideration."

Kevin, excuse me if I find it ironic that you are saying this (since I'm considering you a representative of aD, fairly or unfairly) but aD made the very specious claims that Java is 2x as fast as AOLserver (here (http://www.arsdigita.com/asj/building-scalable-ebusiness/) and the resulting http://www.arsdigita.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg%5fid=000dpo&topic%5fid=web%2fdb&topic=") without a whole lot of documentation describing the specific test.

Some helpful comments, like how aD solved the O-R problem, would be nice.

talli