> I've heard this from others. What really big web sites are run
> on CF?
http://www.autobytel.com/
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Wall
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 10:08 AM
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> Subject: Re: ColdFusion vs. JSP
>
>
> > ColdFusion has an advantage that it has a low learning curve. I
> am not as
> > experienced with JSP to comment on the relative speed of development.
> > Since CF is easier to learn an application can be developed quickly.
>
> When I think about scalable JSPs, I still think of another two tiers of
> application development (services and database) that has to be
> written, with
> JSPs just being the first tier (presentation). So an entire
> application is
> generally not written in JSP, but JSP is used to control the dynamic
> presentation and delivery of information returned by the other
> two tiers of
> code that has to be written.
>
> In highly scalable web systems, it seems that the need for a huge
> number of
> web/presentation systems are often needed to handle all of the connections
> from web browsers, and the net connections tend to be slow, causing each
> transaction/tcp socket to be open for "a long time." The other two tiers
> often run on bigger iron and respond "very quickly" to the
> presentation tier
> which then has to stream out the data back to the client over the
> relatively
> slow net link (slow compared to the links within the server farm).
>
> Does CF combine the "three tiers" (presentation, business logic/services,
> database) into a single platform? Multi-tier systems tend to
> handle changes
> better, such as the inclusion of a desktop app or java applet as a client,
> or a switch to using phone-based (WAP or DTMF) or PDA-based front ends --
> that is, anything that is NOT a web browser, which is just one of the many
> front ends used by people these days.
>
> > In terms of performance ColdFusion has to be parsed to the
> CFusion Server.
> If
> > your application has been coded keeping performance in mind
> then it should
> > not be a problem. I have recoded most applications to improve
> performance
> > with great results. Jsp has to be compiled into servlets which may be a
> > performance issue sometimes(correct me if I am wrong).
>
> JSPs are compiled once -- unless they are changed. Is that the
> same for CF,
> or does CF reparse each time (ala ASP).
>
> > ColdFusion servers can be scaled and managed easily.
> > gautam
>
> I've heard this from others. What really big web sites are run
> on CF? It's
> unfortunate that this sort of technical information is not more easily
> obtained for all sorts of technologies. Our industry doesn't
> like to share
> information about chosen platforms and architectures, which makes
> it hard to
> increase the general knowledge about these things.
>
> David
>
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